A couple of points of clarification.
   
   
  1.  I've seen the ruby slippers a couple of times when they were on display for the Smithsonian's 150th roving celebration (saw them in 5 cities).  It was cool to see them, but they weren't all that sparkly.
   
  2.  Part of that is that there was more than one pair of ruby slippers.  Wiki is reporting 7, which sort of matches my memory of the story I saw not long ago either in a news article or a tv show (History Channel, maybe).  They had to have shoes for Judy and her double.  There were several different designs tried before they finally came up with the ones in the movie.
   
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_slippers
   
  http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/6396/rubyslip.htm
   
  http://www.beyondtherainbow2oz.com/slipperstory.html
   
  They look better in the light than they did on display:
   
  http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r1118.htm
   
  3.  Oprah is Oprah.  Sometimes she's got it together.  Sometimes she is simply classless.
   



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