“Toto, it's bleak and rainy. I have a feeling we're not in Washington anymore.''
That's what Dorothy might be saying later this month when a pair of the original ruby slippers Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz'' are to go on their own journey, traveling to Europe for the first time. They will go on view as part of “Hollywood Costumes,'' an exhibition that opens Oct. 20 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The four-week loan from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will reunite the slippers with Dorothy's blue and white gingham pinafore dress for the first time since the filming of the 1939 movie.
The slippers are almost always on display at the Smithsonian and this pair was purchased at auction in 1970 before being donated to the museum in 1979. Since the loan is for four weeks and the show doesn't end until Nov. 18, when the real ones go back to Washington, a rep lica pair, made for the exhibition by the Western Costume Company, which created the originals, will take their place.
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