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Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, famously wore an embroidered pair of these in the 17th century. In Manet's 1863 painting Olympia, the central woman wears a pair in her bed. During the 1950s, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Fontaine, and Jayne Russell all wore a particular style in their films and daily lives. What is the common name of this shoe, which has no back or constraint around the foot's heel, and a history going as far back as Ancient Rome?

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