Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… toed’ was to be unfashionable when the elite favoured narrower and more pointed designs. 2 2 . June Swann, Shoes (London: Batsford, 1982), p. 26. The changing design of fashionable footwear tells us a great deal about the divergence of … 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 … Weekes to Richard Weekes, 19 December 1802, in John Ford (ed.), A Medical Student at St Thomas’s Hospital, 1801-1802 (London: Wellcome, 1987), p. 244. Much has been written about the ‘renunciation’ in men’s fashion at this time, suggesting …
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