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Pair of Boots and Toe Caps

Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Leather and pigskin cowboy boots, with steel and brass toe caps.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 4 parts.

  • Boot
  • Boot
  • Toe Cap
  • Toe Cap
Materials and techniques
Leather and pigskin, steel and brass
Brief description
Boots, leather and pigskin cowboy boots, La Gran Bota, Mexico, 1940s; Toe caps, steel and brass, United States, 1990s
Physical description
Leather and pigskin cowboy boots, with steel and brass toe caps.
Object history
Registered File number 1993/2054, Streetstyle exhibition 1994-1995, in the exhibition it was part of an outfit called 'Cowboy and Western USA - Late 1940s' (includes the Western suit, jacket T.606-1993 and trousers T.607-1993, the shirt T.608-1993 and collar tips T.610-1993, the tie T.609-1993 and the hat T.611-1993).


Part of a Western-style outfit that would have been worn as an evening outfit in America, and was displayed in the Street Style Exhibition of 1996 as a Cowboy and Western Revival outfit. The boots are original 1940s boots with replica toe-caps.
Bibliographic reference
Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads & Skaters : Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties Described in the exhibition publication, part of an outfit called 'Cowboy and Western USA - Late 1940s'.
Collection
Accession number
T.612:1, 2 and 613:1, 2-1993

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Record createdNovember 22, 2010
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