Why did Cinderella's slippers not disappear?

There are a lot of "questions you are not supposed to ask" when it comes to fairy tales. In other words, the writer, Charles Perrault, needed for the shoes not to disappear. It isn't logical, but this is a fairy tale. read more

The glass slippers though, were not transformed from her old slippers. FGM materialized them from nothing. She warned that when the clock strikes 12, the magic would be undone and everything would return as it was before. read more

At this first ball, Cinderella remembers to leave before midnight, losing one of her glass slippers on the steps of the palace in her haste.The Prince chased her, but outside the palace, the guards saw only a simple country girl leave. read more

The glass slipper, then, along with the use of the witching hour of midnight as the moment at which the heroine's finery will disappear, seems to be one of Perrault's own contributions to the Cinderella story. read more