Olivia de Havilland-Booted in Dodge City

This is a picture of the "Braided Campus" Frye Boot.  Frye was fudging a little when they called them Campus boots. The true campus boot has a more bulbous toe, the heel lacks the slight undercut of this boot and the Campus has a true stove-pipe shaft while these have a slight scallop. For my money these are superior to the true Campus boot because of the slightly more streamlined foot and heel. A pair just like these are in my wife's closet.
I wrote a long reply to a post on AndyP's Made For Walking blog(I may have linked to this already, but I can't find that post). In it I speculated about the origins of the Frye-style boot and their near iconic popularity in the 70's.
Looking through my folders today I came across my edit of Dodge City (1939) Not only is star Olivia de Havilland wearing a pair of boots very similar to the Braided Campus, her entire outfit would not have looked out of place in my high school campus a mere 40 years later.
Decades ago, I read a boot history that claimed the Nazi jackboot ruined tall boots for the next 20 years. I don't know about that, but I feel confident in saying that knee-high boots were much more common in pre-1940 Westerns and that the shorty cowboy boot (barely mid-calf) held sway until the mid-60's. Which is also the time when knee boots were becoming fashionable.

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