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Sweet Elegance | Sweet Elegance - 25415 * Privileged visitors to Biltmore Estate wore their most elegant attire, including shoes such as this slipper, made of soft and satiny kid leather and embellished with lustrous cultured pearls. As the twentieth century progressed, bobbed hair, Kewpie dolls and tighter skirts arrived. Hemlines inched up and the female ankle appeared for the first time, starting a new trend in footwear.

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Sweet Elegance.jpg - Sweet Elegance - 25415     *     Privileged visitors to Biltmore Estate wore their most elegant attire, including shoes such as this slipper, made of soft and satiny kid leather and embellished with lustrous cultured  pearls.  As the twentieth century progressed, bobbed hair, Kewpie dolls and tighter skirts arrived.  Hemlines inched up and the female ankle appeared for the first time, starting a new trend in footwear.

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