Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 468
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… … 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
Clothing and dress
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