In the original story, Cinderella's shoe got stuck because the prince spread pitch on the stairs on the third night of the ball. It wasn't really the shoe's fault.
Not one to jump to the Disney Corporation's defense with their "Disney logic" but I think the story about her losing the slipper is rather older than Disney itself. The earliest version is considered to be Rhodopis, first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the 1st century BC although the story may be as old as 6th century BC. In that version she takes her slippers off because she has to wash some clothes down by the river and she doesn't want to get them wet and a bird swoops down, picks one up and then later drops it into the the Pharaoh's lap. He sees this as a message from the god Horus and vows to marry the person who fits the slipper.
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