Chita Rivera-Briefly A Boot Goddess

For a few years in the late 70's/early 80's Broadway legend Chita Rivera was pretty reliably booted. It often seemed like her uniform was black leather knee boots worn over black spandex pants.  A reader reminded me of her glory days with a link to the 1980 Macy's Parade-


I tried to trim this down, but.....anyway Chita's segment begins at about 55:30 and runs for about 4 minutes of a full body camera angle of her dancing in knee boots and spandex. The quality is about what you'd expect from an 80's era VHS.

Sadly there seem to be few other artifacts from this period. At the time she was a frequent talk-show guest and her appearances were must-see TV. I did find this fine dance segment where she keeps the knee boots but trades the spandex for nicely baggy fabric-


Other scattered bits. Below she appears with her grown-daughter, both are wearing fine 70's boots under knee-length skirts with only the walk-out providing decent views-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ch-ygV3nfE

An almost completely unrelated clip- Elizabeth Taylor was certainly not a regular boot-wearer which makes this clip from Johnny Carson of minor interest. On virtually anyone else, Liz's moto-jacket and calf-high boots would be beneath note, but....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU7guAyAhzg