People talked about drinking champagne out of a glass slipper. (I know that all you wine aficionados are rolling on the floor with laughter.)*
It did not take long for the drunk and stupid to demand a shoe shaped drinking glass. No reputable hostess would accommodate this crass request.
So the "ladies of the evening"**, ordered shoe shaped nick nacks*** in order that the young, drunk and stupid could take a drink from a slipper shaped like a shoe.
AND A LEGEND WAS BORN!
* A glass slipper is pretty much what we all use to drink champagne. It is a type of glass with a wide bowl so you get full advantage of the bubbles.
** Prostitutes. The expensive kind with fancy clothes and fancy houses of ill repute.
*** The little decorations you put on shelves and tables.
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