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A pair of white silk shoes with a floral design, a pointed toe, and tall 2 1/4 inch heels.
shoes (footwear)
footwear
stitching
silk (textile)
Shoe
Shoe
Walk Right In 11/98-3/99 These floral brocade slippers, with pionted tongues and without straps or ties, were highly fashionable in 1785 when Mary Aspinwall of Brookline wore them to marry Joseph Goddard.
Unknown
Gift of Miss Eleanor L. May
1923.213
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