Embroidered Black Velvet Shoes, Floor Samples from Brooklyn Clothier United States Playing Card Co including dramatic cantilevering and top-heavy

including dramatic cantilevering and top-heavy towers

To my eye about as charming as it gets

which provides tables and measurements relating to scantling

removable handle

They took great care of them too

Embroidered Black Velvet Shoes, Floor Samples from Brooklyn Clothier United States Playing Card Co including dramatic cantilevering and top-heavyI just thought these were so sweet and lovely I could not leave them behind. I know that they came from a collection of items handed down from the owners of a family owned clothing store in Brooklyn, and believe they date to sometime between the 1920s 40s. I believe they were floor samples, and understand that these sorts of slipper were ordered as blanks, and then embroidered locally. Some losses to the embroidery and the soles are well worn which