ANST - Thigh High Boots

[Chris and Elisabeth Zakes]

At 06:54 PM 11/17/99 EST, you wrote:
>All of you garb experts out there....
>Are thigh high boots period ?


The correct answer is "yes, but..."

They're fairly late-period and tended to be worn *only* when riding, not as
a day-to-day fashion accessory. There's a scene in "Romeo and Juliet", for
example, where Balthasar enters "cloaked and booted". Nothing specific is
said, but it would be obvious to a Renaissance audience that he had just
gotten off a horse. (For a modern analogy, think of a motorcycle helmet.)

They didn't become a fashion accessory until the 1620s or later.

	-Tivar Moondragon
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