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If the shoe fits

This shoe is made of glass. Legend has it that glassmaker Frederick Carder created this glass slipper in the 1920s and planned to give it to a movie studio in New York for an early Cinderella movie.For the mystery surrounding this specimen, see: “If the shoe fits” of the website of the Corning Museum of Glass. Because that is what the glass shoe does: evoke the image of Cinderella. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that, after Cinderella herself, the shoe is the leading ‘character’ of the plot and is inseparable from this fairytale.This story on Things That Talk is based on the BA thesis C'era una volta l'oggetto: Un'analisi comparativa degli oggetti nelle "tre Cenerentole" di Basile, Perrault e i fratelli Grimm. Thesis Violette Bandu: C'era una volta l'oggetto: Un'analisi comparativa degli oggetti nelle "tre Cenerentole" di Basile, Perrault e i fratelli Grimm

Cinderella loses one of her shoes when she runs away from the ball and tries to avoid the prince. The prince in turn finds the shoe and searches for the lady he had danced with all night; the lady who he believes is The One. He makes all the women in the country try the shoe, but it only fits Cinderella. In the end he finds the woman of his dreams and they live happily ever after, right? But did you know that many different versions of the story of Cinderella have been written? And that the shoe in these versions has evolved and varies depending on the version?