1841-1850ish
Men’s Footwear
- Leather, leather, leather! Leather soles, boots, heels
- Round toes
- Low to medium stacked heels
- Contrasting colors on upper boot, sometimes with ribbon pulls
- Trousers under foot
Women’s Footwear
- Heelless fine leather soles, mostly, with some wedge heels
- Square, pointed, round toes
- Leather toecaps and elastic side gussets
- Low-cut square vamps
- Satin ribbons, long matching ties at the sides
- Evening boots of white silk and black satin
- Silk or satin slippers
- Possible trimmings: rosettes, ruching, silk ribbons, scalloped lace, buckles
Resources
- Peacock, John. Shoes: The Complete Sourcebook, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1604/9780500512128.
- Peacock, John. Costume 1066 to the Present 3e: A Complete Guide to English Costume Design and History, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1604/9780500286029.
- Cunnington, C. Willett. English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Mineola, New York, United States: Dover, 1990.
- “Men’s Wear 1830-1849, Plate 070,” n.d. https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll12/id/6800.
- “Women 1842, Plate 004,” n.d. https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll12/id/1227/rec/4
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