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Friday Slide Show: Magic Shoes
29 November 2024
In the MGM film The Wizard of Oz, Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, reveals the trick to Dorothy. Click the heels of her ruby slippers together three times and repeat the sentence, "There's no place like home." And she will return home.
Rubies, perhaps, you can click. Sequins, which were what was actually used, not so much. Which is why God created sound effects. That wasn't the only edit Hollywood made to the shoes in the novel on which the film was based. In L. Frank Baum's book, the shoes were silver but the color was changed to red to show them off better in Technicolor.
Ours, a remnant of the family home we could not bear to leave to the scavengers, are glitter with some tasteful if inaccurate black notes. We've been planning to photograph them for some time now. So finally, we did.
And as we took a few close-ups, we noticed the back of both shoes have small holes in them. Apparently they can be hung up. On a wall or even a tree, we suppose.
They are certainly not meant to be worn, as the last image suggests. It shows they are only four inches long.
There is no place like home. Long after you leave the keys to someone else, you are still able to return to it by remembering its every detail.
Because you loved it.
