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Boots
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Pair of women's boots of figured yellow cotton twill and off-white leather. The cotton is used for most of the shaft, with leather as toe cap, vamp, facings, heel cap, and a band up the center back of the lower shaft. (Vamp and heel cap cut in ogee curves while toe cap is pointed upward.) Boots lace down front with brown cotton lace tipped with metal aglets, through 14 pairs of metal eyelets. Pointed toe; curved-last sole stained dark over instep with curved, stacked heel, which holds a nail in each front corner and a curved line around back half of outer edge. Machine sewn.
2024.52.004a-b
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Adult, Female
Footwear
Historic Costume
Boots
Female
Twill
Cotton
Yellow
1900 - 1925
20th Century