The Red Ballet Shoes

Northampton's Museum and Art gallery was filled with many incredible shoes, however the shoes that really caught my eye had to be the red ballet shoes that were worn by Moira Shearer in the movie 'The Red Shoes'. It is known that 25 pairs of red ballet pointe shoes were made for the movie however the pair in the photo were never worn (hence why they are such great quality!) 

The ballet shoes really stuck out for me as I used to do ballet myself and it always amazed me how elegant dancers looked in pointe shoes and how they can dance on tip toes. 

Red is renown for many meanings - lust, danger, threat or possibly obsession? But these shoes had the meaning of danger as the shoes when worn take on a life of their own and in the movie, they lead Moira Shearer (who plays the character Vicky) to the edge of a balcony where she is pulled off and struck by a train. Once the shoes have been removed, she then dies.
Safe to say rather Moira than me having to spend the majority of the time in pointe shoes due to their crippling effect! However, if i could dance in those ballet shoes and look elegant then that would be a bonus.

 The shoes are in immaculate condition which makes them much more impressive and looks more expensive. Personally, i really like red shoes as i think they can add a dash of colour to an outfit if it was all black for example and it doesn't look cheap and tacky. Obviously the ballet shoes wouldn't be worn out in public, however the colour still draws attention to them and creates the storyline for the movie.