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Shoes and Boots for Dress Wear
Footwear for Dress Occasions
Men could wear two very different types of footwear - a military-style boot, made of fine leather, or a low, soft dress shoe suitable primarily for indoor wear. If circumstances required the wearer to cross a muddy street, he might resort to pattens, strap-on wood and iron lifts to raise his fancy footwear out of the muck.
From the turn of the nineteenth century until well past the middle years, women wore light, decorative flat shoes. Made of the softest leather or the most fashionable fabrics, they proclaimed the wealth and status of the woman. Over the years, toes changed from pointed, to oval, to square, and then to rounded-square, but the basic shape of the shoe remained the same.
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