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Creator
E.W. Miller, Miller's Reform Boot, Boston
Date Created
1880s-1900s
Subject
Costume accessories; Worn costume accessories; Legs; Feet; Footwear
Description
1880s-1900s. High-button walking boots. Purple faille fabric with a vamp (toe) coming to a rounded toe in front and extending in back to the middle of the arch of the foot. The top has a center front seam and a closed-tab curved fly on the outside of the boot, made with an overlap instead of a separate tongue and closing with nine domed buttons. The buttonhole side is reinforced with leather. The top edge is cut into two points in front and in back. The sole is leather with a knock-on stacked leather heel and high, exaggerated toe spring. Lined in cotton. A woven label is sewn into the lining at the top of the boot and another is stamped into the leather of the insole. Professionally made. Machine-sewn.
Extent
Length: 25.4 cm / 10 in.
Width: 7 cm / 2.75 in.
Heel height: 3.2 cm / 1.25 in.
Boot height: 14 cm/ 5.5 in.
Provenance
Gift of Mary Pepperrell Ffrost Sawyer. Fabric label: "Miller's Reform Boot, Boston" Stamped label: "E. W. Miller Manuf'r of the Miller Reform Boot, Aug. 9, 1881, 51 Hamilton Place, Boston." Worn by the donor.
Museum Number
443
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Library
Medium
Faille
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
Ffrost-Sawyer history
Keywords
Women's shoes (footwear), 1880s-1900s, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, High-button walking boots, Faille, Purple (color), Curved fly, Domed buttons, Leather sole, Stacked leather heel, Toe spring, Cotton lining, Label, Professionally made, Machine-sewn, Ffrost Sawyer (donor), Ffrost (donor), Frost (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.