(If you're a Wizard of Oz fan, we probably don't have to tell you what happens to the Wicked Witch's sister and her shiny shoes). Related: How the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz became the ...
The shoes are silver in both Baum’s 1900 novel and in Gregory Maguire's 1995 book “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” on which the Broadway show and movie are based.