The Slippers That Were Danced into Holes
Once upon a time there was a widower king who had twelve beautiful daughters, each more lovely than the last, but the eldest was by far the most beautiful and intelligent of them all. They slept in twelve beds all in a row in one magnificent, gilded chamber; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut, bolted and guarded. But every morning when the locks were unbarred, the princesses’ fine satin dancing shoes, placed at the foot of their beds the night before, were worn to a ravelling with torn and tattered toes, broken louis heels and holes in their soles; as though they had been danced in all night. And yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been. The princesses remained silent, but the eldest remained the most silent of them all.
‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses, or the Shoes That Were Danced into Holes’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
The theme for "Looking Close… on Friday" for Friday 4th of April is "pair of shoes". I have many pairs of shoes, but perhaps none are more beautiful or delicate than this pair of elegant louis heeled cream satin wedding slippers from 1902, which are part of my antique costume collection. As satin of this age has a tendency to deteriorate, these are in remarkably good museum quality. Very probably only worn the once, these French pumps made in Paris, are decorated with wonderful ruched satin rosettes and mother-of-pearl buckles. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
The Slippers That Were Danced into Holes
Once upon a time there was a widower king who had twelve beautiful daughters, each more lovely than the last, but the eldest was by far the most beautiful and intelligent of them all. They slept in twelve beds all in a row in one magnificent, gilded chamber; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut, bolted and guarded. But every morning when the locks were unbarred, the princesses’ fine satin dancing shoes, placed at the foot of their beds the night before, were worn to a ravelling with torn and tattered toes, broken louis heels and holes in their soles; as though they had been danced in all night. And yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been. The princesses remained silent, but the eldest remained the most silent of them all.
‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses, or the Shoes That Were Danced into Holes’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
The theme for "Looking Close… on Friday" for Friday 4th of April is "pair of shoes". I have many pairs of shoes, but perhaps none are more beautiful or delicate than this pair of elegant louis heeled cream satin wedding slippers from 1902, which are part of my antique costume collection. As satin of this age has a tendency to deteriorate, these are in remarkably good museum quality. Very probably only worn the once, these French pumps made in Paris, are decorated with wonderful ruched satin rosettes and mother-of-pearl buckles. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!