More on Russian Boots

 In my previous post I shared a link to a video featuring a number of examples of the "Russian Boot" trend of the 20's and early 30's. I thought this would be a good time so share my paltry collection of artifacts and provide links to those who'd like to learn more.

As with all things boot-history related, the definitive source is AndyP's blog's. As you would expect he's written extensively on the topic and even created the Wikipedia page.

Russian Boot
The Ghost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_boot

In other posts he postulates the impact of the Russian Boot on the fashion boots that came after. For a full listing, please use the search function on his blog.

Below are some cartoons that appeared in Punch, the English magazine devoted to humor and satire. These showed up in my inbox about 10 years. I thanked the sender then, and if you're reading this now, thanks again.

These are two examples of Russian Boots from the mid-1920's While the blue pair does have an air of old-fashioned, the snakeskin pair is almost indistinguishable from a pair of late-70's/early 80's dress boots.