Boots, purple leather high-laced, 1915-1920, side and front view

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Creator

T.E. Moseley Co., Boston

Date Created

1915-1920

Subject

Costume accessories; Worn costume accessories; Legs; Feet; Footwear

Description

1915-1920. High-laced walking boots. Dark purple glacé leather with a vamp (toe) coming to an oval point in front and extending in back to the middle of the arch of the foot. The quarters (back) are closely sculpted around the heel of the foot, emphasizing the ankle. The top has a center-front closed-tab opening with twenty pairs of metal grommets for lacing, closing over a fleece-lined tongue with a brown lace tipped with narrow metal aiglets. The tongue meets the level of the top of the lacing tabs. Perforated decoration flanks the lacing grommets and runs along the seam of the vamp and top. The continuous leather sole incorporates a leather-covered French/Louis heel. Lined with cotton, and with a band of leather at the top where a maker's label is stamped. The sole is stamped as well. Professionally made. Machine-sewn.

Extent

Length: 25.4 cm / 10 in.
Width: 7.6 cm / 3 in.
Heel height: 7 cm / 2.75 in.
Boot height: 20.3 cm / 8 in.

Provenance

Foil stamped inside top of right boot, "T.E. Moseley Co., Boston", also stamped into leather of right sole but obscured by UNH ID label

Museum Number

447

Publisher

University of New Hampshire Library

Medium

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

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.