While the source material called for clunky silver slippers, the movie was so enthralled by technicolour filming that they ditched the origins of the shoe for the sparkly red we all know and love ...

Dorothy's (Judy Garland) ruby red slippers from the classic 1939 movie 'The Wizard of Oz'. (Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images) "We had boundaries of what we could reference or not," Chu explained.

At that time, the filmmakers pivoted, selecting ruby slippers as the best option to sparkle on screen against the backdrop of the yellow brick road. The red sequined shoes highlighted the vivid ...

“For the Technicolor movie, costumers created ruby red shoes to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road,” reads the Smithsonian description of a pair of the ruby slippers used in ...

At that time, the filmmakers pivoted, selecting ruby slippers as the best option to sparkle on screen against the backdrop of the yellow brick road. The red sequined shoes highlighted the vivid ...

There’s a reason why a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz was recently valued at a whopping $3.5 million. Sure, the kitten-heeled accessories were just painted red ...