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== Literature ==
* Book 4 of ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'': The winner of the [[Beauty Contest]] will be the one who can wear the [[Not Quite Dead|(supposedly) dead]] Florimell's golden girdle, as it can only be worn by a [[Virgin Power]], and virginity is beautiful. At least, those were the rules, but when the belt fits none of the girls except Amoret, the judges stubbornly award it to who they think is the most attractive girl anyway (who is actually a clone of the real Florimell), chaste or not, despite the protests of Amoret's [[Knight in Shining Armor]], who is actually a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]. Yes, it's an interesting story.
* In ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'', the Kenthiar is a collar that only the Highlord can
* In [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' ''[[The Dalemark Quartet|The Crown of Dalemark]]'', Mitt is {{spoiler|descended from the Adon and destined to become King, and the ring that marks him out as such actually grows and shrinks in order to fit him perfectly on any finger he puts it on. He doesn't realise, because the ring gets swapped with a nonmagical copy.}}
* ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'' utterly dismantles this trope. Lilith is trying to [[Invoked Trope]] the trope for the Cinderella story she's masterminding, and Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax point out that a lot of feet can fit a shoe that size with enough socks... and even if you don't have socks, there must be a ''lot'' of people with that shoe size in the city. The only way to use it as a test is if you know who dropped it in the first place....
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* Justified in ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'': There's fairy blood in Ella's family, so her feet are significantly smaller than most people's.
* In ''Bound'' by Donna Jo Napoli, a Chinese ''[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]'' story, it was justified because the shoe was designed for unbound feet, like main character Xing Xing who grew up without binding her feet.
* Justified in ''Princess of Glass'': the slipper was molded to the exact shape of the girl's foot. And the slipper isn't the real test
* One mystery short had a detective telling a suspect that a killer had left a print behind in blood at the scene of the murder, but it was the print of a glove. The suspect pointed out that would not help identify the killer. The detective said the glove had a distinctive characteristic that would identify the killer exactly and asked the suspect to show him his hands. It turns out, the glove {{spoiler|was made for someone with six fingers}}.
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