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Creator
Unknown
Date Created
1760-1790
Subject
Costume accessories; Worn costume accessories; Legs; Feet; Footwear
Description
1760-1790. Pattens or clogs, overshoes worn to protect a shoe. The leather sole is completely flat and is undifferentiated left from right. It is shaped with a very pointed toe and is built up to match the instep of a heeled shoe, with a ninety degree drop from the instep to the level where the heel of the shoe worn with it would have been supported. The sides of the built-up part of the patten are covered with silk cream damask. The latchets closing the pattens around the vamp (toe) of a shoe are made of the same silk cream damask and would have had a removable buckle added to them when worn. Professionally made. Hand-sewn.
Extent
Length: 19.7 cm / 7.75 in.
Width: 7 cm / 2.75 in.
Accommodates heel height: 2.9 cm / 1.125 in.
Provenance
Gift of the Coe family. Descended through the family, owned and worn by Temperance Pickering Knight (1732-1821) of Dover Point, New Hampshire.
Museum Number
440
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Library
Medium
Leather, silk damask
Contributor
Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator
Date Digitized
3-1-2019
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Pickering and Coe history
Keywords
Women's shoes (footwear), 1760-1790, Newington, Dover Point, New Hampshire, United States, Pattens, Clogs, Overshoes, Latchets, Removable buckle, Leather sole, Pointed toe, Silk damask, Cream (color), Professionally made, Hand-sewn, Temperance Pickering Knight, Janet Coe Stearns, Margaret Coe Ninde, Sarah T. Coe, Anne Coe Curry, Coe family, Coe (donor)
Comments
The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.
Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.