Please help dating a shoe/slipper

[CoupContrecoup]

I have a pair of shoes that I can't date, and would appreciate any help! They look like they're painted/shellacked canvas uppers with leather insoles and soles. They're mules with a rough wooden heel that was painted black. There are green fabric stripes on the toe, which look like they were sewn (not very well--crookedly) with a sewing machine, not by hand. There are holes on either side of the footbed, most likely for a ribbon to fasten them. They have three little stars stamped into the sole.

I haven't been able to find anything like these online. I wonder if they might have been shoes made for a theater production? They are definitely more than 50 years old, but the messy stitching makes me think they were made hastily. Thank you!

 

[Jonathan]

Although heavily influenced by Western fashion they are actually ethnographic - I suspect North African - maybe Algerian or Egyptian? They might be 1920s -- its so hard to tell with ethnographic items because they don't follow a style progression like fashionable items.

 

[CoupContrecoup]

Oh, interesting! Thanks!