Pointe shoe New York City Ballet orders about 8,500 pairs of pointe shoes each year for 180 dancers, while the Royal Ballet dancers use about 12,000 pairs of shoes for each season. Pointe shoe A pointe shoe is a type of shoe worn by ballet dancers when performing pointe work. Pointe shoes were conceived in response to the desire for dancers to appear weightless and sylph-like and have evolved to enable dancers to dance "en pointe" (on the tips of their toes) for extended periods of time. They are manufactured in a variety of colors, most commonly in shades of light pink.
The Shoe Museum from the 200 years of the companies history. The museum also includes a display of machinery used in footwear production, and a selection of shop display showcards from the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s, and television advertisements. The museum includes the first clogs worn by Gracie Fields and the wedding shoes of Diana, Princess of Wales. There are plans to move the museum into "The Grange", a Grade II listed building on the Clark's Village site. The Shoe Museum The Shoe Museum in Street, Somerset, England exhibits shoes dating from the Roman era to the present day. It shows the history