Purple Ballet Slippers

During the seventeenth century ballet was normally performed in the same productions as opera. This was known as opera-ballet. Lully set the standard in the opera-ballet, and his audiences came to see the dancing as much as the music. When the composer of one opera-ballet, L'Europe Galante, (1697), suggested making the dance sequences longer as well as shortening the skirts of the female dancers, ballet became increasingly popular. These shoes are comfortable beyond belief, always emphasizing the finest quality materials resulting in matchless comfort.