Slippers

J. Staton

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A particularly fine example of the stencil-printed leather, extremely pointed toe, and low heel popular around 1800, these slippers would have served to enliven a plain dress. Yellow and black was a much favored color scheme for stencil-printed shoes. This design has an interesting optical effect of yellow mesh over a black ground.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art