#silver shoes

[just-your-average-shiz-student]

– Gregory Maguire, Wicked

[yellowbrickramble]

I looked up the history of shoeboxes and yes they absolutely had cardboard shoeboxes in the early 1900s same as we do today. However, instead of glued paperboard, they used taped or stapled corrugated cardboard boxes covered with paper. Neat, huh?

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[arinewman7]

Silver Shoes

Photography by Ilse Bing

Silver gelatine print, 1935

[bwaybby09]

In the original Wizard of Oz book, when Dorothy travels back to Kansas, her silver shoes fell off and were lost in the desert.

So imagine Elphaba and Fiyero walking in the desert when all of a sudden, they were nearly hit on the head with Nessa’s shoes.

[rexshadaoart]

Glinda of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's final Oz book cover of the same name. Featuring Princess Ozma, Princess Dorothy, and Glinda the Good Witch of the South. All in my designs on the characters (except Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, I didn't have time to add them).

UPDATE: Managed to get enough time to add Scarecrow and Tin Woodman. Plus fixing a few issues and adding colorful planets.

I mainly did this because I realized that I haven't done more with Glinda outside of the initial character design. I wanted to change that AND showcase just how tall she really is compared to everyone else.

You can thank Wicked For Good for prompting me to do this rather continue with Nomes for NomeVember. I needed a reminder of who Glinda really is from the books with everyone else talking about Ariana Grande's Galinda "Glinda" Upland from the Wicked films. She's really the polar opposite of what people usually think of Glinda thanks to the MGM adaptation.

[gayfergus]

In the original novel of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the jeweled shoes are described as being made with beaded glass which refracts multiple colors ─ cleverly paying homage to the silver shoes of L. Frank Baum's novel and the ruby slippers of MGM's film without having to deal with copyright concerns of the latter.

"From a pile of ash shavings she withdrew a shoe, and then another. Were they silver? - or blue? - or now red? - lacquered with a candy shell brilliance of polish? It was hard to tell and it didn’t matter; the effect was dazzling."

I doubt we'll actually see the shoes become ruby red in Wicked: For Good, at most maybe a red shine during a pivotal moment. Still fun to image, in another universe...

(edits courtesy of Justice Gage)

[11oh1]

[wannagethighfashion]

photos by my friend rena <3