Red Patent Leather is a live album by the American rock and roll group New York Dolls, released in 1984.

[citation needed] The entire show was included in the From Here To Eternity box set, featuring the tracks on disc 3.

[4] Band performances were rare at the "Little Hippodrome", a drag and comedy club which was located at 227 East 56th Street, between Second and Third Avenues.

The club was named after the Hippodrome Theatre, a nearby landmark Theater District building in Midtown Manhattan that had been torn down in 1939.

[citation needed] The group dressed in red for the show and decorated the club with a faux communist red theme, and dubbed the event 'Red Patent Leather' in their press release, which explained: "This show is in coordination with the Dolls' very special 'entente cordiale' with the People's Republic of China.