Identifier: royalhistoricglo1904redf (find matches)
Title: Royal and historic gloves and shoes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Redfern, William Beales
Subjects: Gloves Footwear
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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PLATE IV
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GLOVES AND SHOES 77 A PLATE VI BOOTS OF KING HENRY VI PAIR of fine, and probably unique examples of fifteenth-century boots, which, like the gloves of the same sovereigngiven in Plate II. (on Gloves), have been handed down ingood preservation to the present time. The boots, which partakesomewhat of the character of gaiters, are made of fine Spanish brownleather, and are lined with deer skin, which still retains its hair ;round the ankles is a kind of wadding, between the leather and thelining, apparently to resist the wet. The sides of the boots fromthe ankles to the knees are fastened by means of a number of smallbuttons made of finely plaited thread, sewn on with silk; the feetare small, measuring only 10 inches in length; the soles and heelsare flat and round; and the waist (that part joining the two) measuresonly i inch across. The total height of the boots from the toes to the top is 2 feet 3 inches, from the heel to the top of the back ofthe boot is 23I inches, and the bell tops

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