Not terribly novel!  At the Palazzo Corsini in Florence some years ago, I
was with a group of other graduate students who were given the special
privilege of visiting the family's extensive private art collection.  We
had to remove our street shoes and put on big flat floppy slippers so we
wouldn't harm the floors.  It was hard to avoid the temptation to start
slip slidin' away...

Adrienne DeAngelis
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On Sun, 30 May 2004, Pamela Sezgin wrote:
..
> At this museum,  visitors were given monster slippers that fit over their
> shoes!
>
> These slippers contained the mud and muck from rainstorms and street dirt
> that could be tracked into the building.    Also, the original wooden floors of
> the house were protected from spikey high heels or other damage from street
> shoes.
>
> A novel approach to the problem!
>
> Cordially,
> Pamela Sezgin
>
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