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Girl’s Berlin-work Slippers, ca. 1860 Many patterns for making slippers at home appeared in ladies’ magazines in the 1850s and 1860s. Women used them to make uppers which were then taken to a local cobbler for assembly into the slippers (Rexford…

Baby shoes, 1895-1901 Bar shoes, also called strap shoes, were worn by both boys and girls. Leather in a reddish-brown tone known as “russet” became popular at the end of the nineteenth century. This pair of russet shoes fastened at the side with…

Baby shoes, late 1850s, early 1860s These shoes are constructed of brown kid and held in place at the ankle with thin black elastic bands. They have decorative brown-and-white rosettes with buckle-shaped ornaments in the center of the vamp. Machine…