Stocking Boots, Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh wore these handmade stocking boots as she flew with her husband Charles on survey flights across the North and South Atlantic in 1933. Anne and Charles filled most of their plane's storage space with tools, survival gear, and canned rations, allowing themselves only 18 pounds of personal luggage each, including suitcase. Their clothing thus had to be lightweight, but also warm since they would by flying over some of the coldest places on earth, including Greenland, Iceland, and Scandinavia. These wool boots weigh only 0.4 pounds each and would have kept Anne's feet warm in the unheated cockpit. She opted for light-weight wool boots instead of shoes because, as she wrote, "shoes are the most weight-expensive item."