. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . t if manycarriages and coaches were used, shoemakers wouldsuffer because so few shoes would be worn out. From the statutes which are rehearsed we learn thatthe footwear of the day was boots, shoes, buskins,startups, slippers, or pantofles. Stubbes said: — They have korked shooes puisnets pantoffles, some ofblack velvet, some of white some of green, some of yel-low, some of Spanish leather, some of English leatherstitched with Silke and embroidered with Gold & Silver allover the foot. A very interesting book has been published bythe British
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . t if manycarriages and coaches were used, shoemakers wouldsuffer because so few shoes would be worn out. From the statutes which are rehearsed we learn thatthe footwear of the day was boots, shoes, buskins,startups, slippers, or pantofles. Stubbes said: — They have korked shooes puisnets pantoffles, some ofblack velvet, some of white some of green, some of yel-low, some of Spanish leather, some of English leatherstitched with Silke and embroidered with Gold & Silver allover the foot. A very interesting book has been published bythe British Cordwainers Guild, giving a successionof fine illustrations of the footwear of differenttimes and nations. Among them are some hand-some English slippers, shoes, jack-boots, etc. Wehave also in our museums, historical collections, andprivate families many fine examples ; but the diffi-culty is in the assigning of correct dates. Familytradition is absolutely wide of the truth — its fabu-lous dates are often a century away from the Batts and Broags, Boots and Shoes 375 Buskins to the knee were worn even by royalty;Queen Elizabeths still exist. Buskins were in wearwhen the colonies were settled. Richard Sawyer, ofWindsor, Connecticut, had cloth buskins in 1648;and a hundred years later runaway servants wore
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