Pair of button boots

Button boots, pair, womens, leather / linen, maker unknown, prize work, England, (1870-1875). Pair of womens ankle boots of rand construction with rounded square toes and covered Louis heels. Boots consist of patent winged vamp and green Morocco leg, featuring white piping along seams, front and back seam of leg, curved top with 'V' dip, scalloped white piped facing, white stitched buttonholes and seven black buttons, exaggerated curved instep and white stitched scrolled decoration along edge of throat. Boots lined in linen and red stitched white kid with a white kid sock and heels covered in black kid are white stitched and sueded, probably originally polished. Brown leather soles were originally polished and feature a black waist, edge finish and white breast.