Ruby Slippers: How Wizard Of Oz’s Dorothy Gales Shoes Become a Hollywood Icon

For more than 80 years, the movie that was based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, had an unlikely journey to icon status. Originally, the story was not supposed to use ruby slippers. At first, it was silver slippers. The change was made to ruby, in a May 1938 draft. Reportedly, the ruby was chosen to create a greater contrast with the yellow brick road.