Boots

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These good quality child's button boots are made more attractive by the use of topstitched details and scalloped edges. The looping design of topstitching on the button fly is seen on many examples from the period and is both a decorative enhancement and a functional reinforcement of the buttonholes. The scalloped top is a feature limited mainly to childrenswear, where short skirts would allow such a detail to be seen, and which would mirror the decorative bottom edge of the pantaloons.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art