In L Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy wore silver slippers. But when Technicolor technology entered the filmdom, Judy Garland wore the ruby slippers. The original ruby slippers designed by Gilbert Adrian had become so popular during the 40s that one pair of the slipper is on permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In the quest to reinvent the Ruby Slippers and to mark the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, a number of designers have come forward with their interpretation of the Ruby Slippers. If Dorothy could grace the Ruby Slippers Auction on the 20th September to benefit Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS foundation from her Kansas home, which one would she choose to click her heel three times to say – “There’s no place like home!”
