“In the book, they were these odd little silver ... “For the Technicolor movie, costumers created ruby red shoes to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road,” reads the Smithsonian ...

In the children's novel by L. Frank Baum, on which the film was based, Dorothy's magical shoes were silver. The idea to change them to ruby red came from Noel Langley, one of the film's ...