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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Fashion boot, Ugg boots, Wellington boot, Thigh-high boots, Cowboy boot, Steel-toe boot, Platform shoe, Ski boot, Riding boot, Go-go boots, Winklepickers, R. M. Williams, Russian boot, Beatle boots, Hiking boot, Merrell, Seven-league boots, Valenki, Ballet boot, Uggs-N-Rugs, Kinky boots, Dress boot, Mountaineering boots, Magnum boots, Buskin, Jika-tabi, Platform boot, Boot fetishism, Moon boot, Mukluk, Boot jack, Australian work boot, Chukka boot, Chelsea boots, Magnetic boots, Hwa, Allens Boots, Waders, Hessian, Rigger boot, Boot money, Hip boot, Knee-high boots, Veldskoen, Exerlopers, Wedge boots, Cavalier boots, Blutchers. Excerpt: A fashion boot is a boot worn for reasons of style or fashion (rather than for utilitarian purposes - e.g. not hiking boots, riding boots, rain boots, etc.). The term is usually applied to women's boots. Fashion boots come in a wide variety of styles, from ankle to thigh-length, and are used for casual, formal, and business attire. Although boots were a popular style of women's footwear in the Nineteenth Century, they were not recognized as a high fashion item until the 1960s. They became widely popular in the 1970s and have remained a staple of women's winter wardrobes since then. In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, ankle and calf-length boots were common footwear for women. Rising hemlines made longer styles of boots popular. In 1913, Denise Poiret, the wife of celebrated French couturier Paul Poiret, caused a sensation in Paris and New York by wearing knee-length boots in wrinkled Morocco leather. Designed by her husband, made by the bottier Favereau, and styled with a low heel and a square toe, she had versions in red, white, green, and yellow. By 1915 the New York Times was reporting that, inspired by Mme Poiret, women had adopted these "Russian boots" as an acceptable alternati...
