Dorothy's Ruby Slippers
Object Details
- Date made
- 1939
- wearer
- Garland, Judy
- designer
- Adrian
- maker
- Adrian
- Description
- Sixteen-year-old Judy Garland wore these sequined shoes as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 MGM musical film The Wizard of Oz. In the original book by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy's magic slippers are silver; for the Technicolor movie, costumers created ruby red shoes to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road. One of several pairs used during filming, these size-five shoes are well-worn, suggesting they were Garland's primary pair for dance sequences.
- Place Made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- related object association proper name
- Wizard of Oz
- general subject association
- Motion Pictures
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- National Treasures exhibit
- Exhibition
- Entertainment Nation
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Related Publication
- Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
- National Museum of American History. Treasures of American History online exhibition
- Related Web Publication
- https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/treasures-american-history
- Credit Line
- Merle Banta, Fred Carr, and Stephen Hinchliffe
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1979.1230.01
- accession number
- 1979.1230
- catalog number
- 1979.1230.01
- Object Name
- shoes, pair of
- Object Type
- Shoes
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- fiber, synthetic (overall material)
- adhesive (overall material)
- fabric, felt (overall material)
- Measurements
- one shoe: 5 in x 3 in x 9 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm x 24.13 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_670130