Ruby slippers from the film "The Wizard of Oz" displayed at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution). Sixteen-year-old Judy Garland wore these sequined shoes as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film classic "The Wizard of Oz". In the original book by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy's magic slippers are silver; for the Technicolor movie, they were changed to ruby red to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road. One of several pairs used during filming, these size-five shoes are well-worn, suggesting they were Garland's primary pair for dance sequences.