Description

Single bound-foot shoe. Shoe has a rounded, raised heel and is roughly triangular in shape, narrowing to a point in the toe. Fabric extends around the sides and toe of the shoe, but is open along the top of the foot. Fabric around the sides of the shoe is black, covered with multicoloured floral embroidery, and trimmed with black brocade; two strips of patterned fabric--blue and pink, respectively--are sewn beneath the black trim. Fabric used on the raised portion of the heel and the bottom of the shoe is a pearlescent white. Interior fabric is a light pink. The back of the heel is covered with a rectangular piece of green brocade with a patterned, white, scalloped, inset border trimmed with black cloth.