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This work was produced in Tuscany and was mainly used for high quality hats. However, at the height of its popularity straw plait was used to decorate almost all kinds of clothing - from bodices to parasols. The Italian-made plaits used for the shoes were probably sold as flat sheets, maybe even cut into the pattern pieces, and then assembled with various trimmings. This means that the shoe could have been made up anywhere in Europe, or even in America.","physicalDescription":"Shoes of plaited straw lined with red silk. Trimmed around opening with straw braid (of straw thread and splints) and pleated, originally red, now grey-red, silk ribbon. Hand stitched with red silk thread. Decoration at centre front of ribbon bow and cut leaf shapes of card covered with probably linen. Heel covered with white kid. 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The collection had been formed by the artist Talbot Hughes, who wrote a book on the history of dress, illustrated with photographs of models wearing items from his collection. A large firm in America had offered to buy the collection and present it to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, but Hughes did not want it to go abroad. At the suggestion of Cecil Harcourt Smith of the V&A, Harrods bought it for £2,500 and gave it to the Museum for the 'public good'. 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