The dress appeared at midnight. The carriage was a pumpkin by dawn. The slipper, against every reasonable probability, fit perfectly. And none of it would have happened if she had given up.
Cinderella is one of the oldest stories in the world — versions of it appear in ancient Greece, in Tang Dynasty China, in the folklore of cultures on every inhabited continent — which suggests it is telling us something we have always needed to hear. That kindness is not weakness. That patience is not passivity. That the people who treat you as less than you are do not get to determine what you are worth. Disney's 1950 animated film distilled all of that into something so graceful, so warmly animated and so perfectly scored that it became the template for what a princess story could be.
The glass slipper. The fairy godmother. The ball. The stroke of midnight that turns magic back into ordinary life — and the morning after, when the magic turns out to have left something behind.
Our Cinderella collection brings together officially licensed gifts, figures, apparel and keepsakes for fans of the original Disney princess and the story that has outlasted everything.
Have courage and be kind.
