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Feb 9, 2018 · In French as in English, “a glass” can mean a vessel to drink from. In one sense, then, the glass slipper is like a goblet, a jewel, an accessory worthy of the “cloth of gold and silver bedecked with precious stones.”. In the Grimm version of the tale, the shoe is golden, and in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy sports a pair of “ruby ...
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The Glass Slipper is a fictional shoe belonging to Cinderella, first used in the 1950 film of the same name. It was created through the use of magic by her Fairy Godmother in order for her to attend the royal ball. It also plays a somewhat significant role in the film's second sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. The glass slipper is known as Ci...
Cinderella
The glass slippers are the dainty footwear conjured up for Cinderella by her Fairy Godmother (as well as an additional accessory to her well-suited ball gown) so she can attend the ball at the King's castle, despite not having anything suitable to wear. The slippers remain on her feet as she dances with Prince Charming. As she flees the castle when the clock strikes midnight, she loses one of them on the steps as she leaves. When the spell lifts, the slipper remains intact, as does the one that is still on Cinderella's foot. The Grand Duke picks it up and searches through the kingdom to find the young maiden whose foot fits it, for the one who does will become the Prince's bride. After searching the whole kingdom, the Grand Duke comes to Cinderella's home. Anastasia and Drizella both try to force their feet into it, with Anastasia even putting on an act that she remembered dancing with the Prince, but fail in doing so. Cinderella comes down from her room and asks if she can try it on. Lady Tremaine insists Cinderella is only the maid, but the Duke says that his orders were every maiden. As the Duke's Herald delivers it to her, Lady Tremaine uses her cane to trip him, causing the slipper to fly out of the Herald's hands and shatter into pieces upon hitting the floor. Cinderella surprises everyone by revealing that she has the other one. When it fits her foot, she is taken to the castle to be married to the Prince. The slippers are seen one last time on her feet during the wedding.
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
In this film, Lady Tremaine steals the Fairy Godmother's wand and reverses time so the Prince will marry Anastasia. When the Grand Duke comes to their home, she magically makes the slipper a bigger size so it can fit Anastasia's foot. As they leave to go to the palace, Cinderella comes downstairs with the other one, but Lady Tremaine breaks it, tells her to clean it up, and threatens her to make her unable to prove her identity. Anastasia wears the other one throughout the rest of the film. Later, Cinderella's bird friends somehow manage to stick the pieces of the broken one back together and brought it to the Prince to convince him that Cinderella was the girl who he really danced with at the ball, after Lady Tremaine tries to use the wand to indoctrinate him.
House of Mouse
The glass slippers are Cinderella's signature clothing in the series, along with her ballgown. In the pilot episode, after Donald Duck took over as the host of House of Mouse, Cinderella and the other guests fled away from the bad show. In that process she left behind one of them. In the second episode, when the Big Bad Wolf blows his trumpet on stage during the Big Bad Wolf Daddy musical number, various fragile objects break, from the chambers of the Enchanted Rose to the glass slippers. In the episode "Where's Minnie?", they are listed as one of the "Scuttle's Lost & Found" objects. In the episode "Ask Von Drake", the Grand Duke tried to fit them on Anastasia's foot, until Ludwig von Drake advises him to try them on Cinderella.
•In reality, glass footwear would be quite uncomfortable to wear, much less to walk or run in because there's no cushion for the sole of the foot. However, Cinderella does this quite comfortably, likely because of them being imbued with magic. Coincidentally, in the 2015 film, the Fairy Godmother remarks that they are really comfortable.
•Cinderella leaving behind one of the slippers on the castle stairs while running away from the ball is the second of three times she drops her footwear in the original film.
•In reality, there would be a constant sound coming from any form of glass footwear as it is pressed against a solid surface, such as a ballroom floor or pavement. In Cinderella's case, this sound is non-existent. However, in Cinderella III, when it is made by Lady Tremaine to fit Anastasia's foot through the use of magic, a noticeable clanking noise is heard when she walks and when she dances with the prince. This may be because it was not meant for her, but for Cinderella.
•In Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, it is stated by the king that the slipper is a women's size 4½.
•For some reason, the slippers do not revert when the magic wears off, like the ball gown does when the clock strikes midnight, which suggests that they were actual glass ones. Cinderella thanks her Fairy Godmother for letting her keep them.
•In the live-action film, it's heavily implied that the reason the glass slippers didn't disappear was because they were pure magic and did not derive from an already existing object. Instead of transforming Ella's current shoes, her Fairy Godmother asked her to remove them and she conjured up the glass slippers onto her feet.
In modern versions of Perreault's work (originally written in French), the slippers are described as "pantoufles de verre" - literally "glass slippers". However, the real spelling should not be "verre", but "vair" (the words are homophones and they sound exactly alike). In 17th Century French, "vair" was a type of of gray squirrel fur.
The Glass Slipper is a fictional shoe belonging to Cinderella, first used in the 1950 film of the same name. It was created through the use of magic by her Fairy Godmother in order for her to attend the royal ball. It also plays a somewhat significant role in the film's second sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. The glass slipper is known as Cinderella's trademark object. It is also the ...
Jun 27, 2015 · At this first ball, Cinderella remembers to leave before midnight, losing one of her glass slippers on the steps of the palace in her haste.The Prince chased her, but outside the palace, the guards saw only a simple country girl leave. The Prince pocketed the slipper and vowed to find and marry the girl to whom it belonged.
May 26, 2017 · Also she transforms Cinderella's old dress to shiny ball gown. Her regular slippers into glass slippers. Watch the scene here. The Fairy God mother's words are: You must understand my dear. On the stroke of twelve, the spell will be broken. As said by the God mother, all the creatures and objects change their forms. But glass slippers don't.
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Dec 31, 1998 · Published Dec. 31, 1998. Cinderella's slippers were made of fur in the original version of the fairy tale, but they became glass slippers as the result of a mistranslation. If you asked people to ...
