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The Æsthetics of Boots, No. III

Phorniosticus, Aldi Borondi Fosca. "The Æsthetics of Boots, No. III." Vanity Fair, March 16, 1861, 129.
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Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
satire
Abstract

The boot scholar explains that boots will reveal much about a man, compared to another who wears merely shoes. Also, boots may stand as an anthropological artifact, standing the rigors of time.