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Creator
Unknown
Date Created
1915
Subject
Costume accessories; Worn costume accessories; Legs; Feet; Footwear
Description
1915. High-button walking boots. White canvas with a vamp (toe) coming to an oval point in front, finished with a fabric toe cap, and joined to the quarters (backs) with a vertical side seam. The quarters continue the line of the vamp to the back of the boot, imitating the construction of whole foxing (which is usually made of leather). The top is seamed to the vamp and quarters and has a center back seam and a center front seam, with a closed-tab curved fly on the outside of the boot. This is made with an overlap instead of a separate tongue and closes with sixteen domed buttons painted white. The buttonhole side is reinforced with leather. The top edge is cut higher in front than in back. The sole is leather with a knock-on stacked leather heel. Lined in cotton. Stamped with a date, May 17, 1915. Professionally made. Machine-sewn.
Extent
Length: 25.7 cm / 10.125 in.
Width: 7.6 cm / 3 in.
Heel height: 5.1 cm / 2 in.
Boot height: 16.5 cm / 6.5 in.
Provenance
Ink stamp May 17, 1915
Museum Number
449
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Library
Medium
Canvas, leather
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
Keywords
Women's shoes (footwear), 1915, High-button walking boots, Canvas, White (color), Whole foxing, Domed buttons, Leather sole, Stacked leather heel, Cotton lining, Professionally made, Machine-sewn
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.