Bronze metallic heel with striped mesh

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A right bronze metallic heel with striped mesh. The shoe has a rounded toe box made of metallic vinyl. The edge of the toe box has a wing tip; the vamp is made of plastic net with metallic thread and vertical stripes. A quarter inch wide band of bronze metallic vinyl is sewn along the top edge of the vamp. The shoe has an ankle strap made of bronze metallic vinyl with a metal buckle on the outer edge of the shoe. The insole is made of gold vinyl. The outsole is made of brown leather; the heel of the shoe is covered in gold metallic vinyl. A rubber heel cap is on the bottom of the heel. A white paper sticker is on the ball of the shoe on the outsole. Handwritten text in blue ink on the sticker reads [183 / L Dom / H Cone / 3500].

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