You've probably seen some of these pictures of Kate Bush in a text book example of late 70's thigh boots. This style is arguably the rarest of the 4 or 5 thigh boot eras. They are one of my favorites and I'm not sure if I'm attracted to the scarcity or if my fondness stems from being in high school from 76-79. Some of these pictures have been floating around for decades, some of them I just found yesterday (some appear in the tumblr of the wise and magnificent AndyP) A while back I stumbled upon two music videos featuring Kate performing in these very boots. The quality is poor, and these are the best I've found, but I still consider them valuable additions.
The next two are the same performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GWKuGLLwe8
This one boasts a higher quality picture, but info bubbles often obscure the lower quarter of the frame-WHICH IS WHERE THE BOOTS ARE. It also starts with a number that has Kate seated behind a piano-jump to about 3:28 (BTW-sometimes I really hate blogger. Do they mean to make it impossible at times to embed the desired video?-This has already taken me an hour longer than I planned and I'm not wrestling with this ridiculous crap a moment longer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwsXJ6C3X2c
At least in this one her boots aren't obscured by meaningless factoids-what hath Pop-Up-Video wrought?
Saw these boots on the Kate Bush at the BBC programme. Truly amazing boots, but then Kate Bush managed to be astonishingly sexy without seemingly trying to be. Which made her all the more sexy. A one-off. So many girls should take her as an example (but they wouldn't have the talent of the X factor).
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