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Pair of white satin shoes with blue accents. Floral and foliate pattern. Thick Louis heel, square tongue, and a dog leg side seam.
shoes (footwear)
stitching
silk (textile)
Shoe
Shoe
Walk Right In 11/98-3/99 Eighteenth-century shoes are called "straights" because they could be worn on either foot. The phrase "to tread one's shoes straight" meant to behave with propriety.
1945.257A-B
Unknown
4 1/2 x 3 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Cazneau Bertha Fox
1945.257AB
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