Wedding Shoes          

This pair of women’s slippers was worn by a direct relative of Mrs. B. Ward Dix for her wedding in 1716. Although these slippers predate the American Revolution by quite a few years, the style of shoe shown here persisted through the late 18th century and into the early 19th. The bright blue fabric denotes these shoes as belonging to a woman of great wealth and status, as the silk overlay on them would have been hard to obtain by anyone without access to a European importer.