Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… to be associated with the sins of the aristocracy, and men increasingly wore trousers or pantaloons with laced shoes or boots instead. This more military and democratic style befitted a time of war and revolution. As Hampton Weekes wrote in London in 1802, ‘Black coat, & waistcoat with Pantaloons & Hessian Boots […] is the wear of almost all the young Men here’. 3 3 . Hampton Weekes to Richard Weekes, 19 December 1802, in … hobnailed shoes. 4 . J. C. Flügel, The Psychology of Clothes (London: Hogarth Pess, 1930). 5 . Matthew McCormack, ‘Boots, material culture and Georgian masculinities’, Social History (vol. 42, n° 4, 2017), p. 461-79. Over the same …
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