Silk brocade slippers   Save
Ohio History Connection Museum Collections
Description: Underside of light gray quadrafoils and rib brocade silk straight slippers tied with a 2-cm light gray ribbon. The shoes have a small 4-cm gray ribbon rosette on the toes and the lining is muslin and buckram on the insoles. Worn by Eliza Dana Fearing to accompany her infare dress following her marriage to Henry Fearing in 1824. An infare is a house-warming, reception or party given by a newly-married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. From Marietta, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04982
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Women's shoes; Clothing & dress; Wedding costume; Weddings
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)