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Ok, the 19th Century officer boots, were very tight and form fitting. Different from the boots in question, or at least on the captain twill post. About boots, captain twill topic i mean. Foxe, ya forgot LIVERPOOL, when you walk through a storm hold your head up high, sorry I just got to represent me peeps, and I've been hitting the Boodingtons a bit much. Also a I just got done watching green street hooligans. I'm pissed. You should have seen this post with out all my corrections.

We definatly have to.

Thanks for saving me hours, Patrick. Back to the bucket.

Now hold on... I can't let this pass. We have not determined that sailors "wore boots". We have yet to find any concrete evidence of sailors from the GAoP, let alone pirates wearing them. I’m saying that they were fashionable in the sense that they existed and were around, not that they were fashionable in a sense of fashion. Other wise people would be posing in them all the time. I am stating that they were more of a work boot. Those pics on the last page were all of sailors, I’ll have more info about the Batavia boots hopefully Monday. Those pics back up the purposes of why a sailor would wear boots. I will agree that shoes were more common in a fashionable sense.

I couldn't agree more.

It pouring right now too. But they say its going to clear up by tomorrow.

True, but pirates were sailors, among other things and sailors wore boots, thats not speculation. Why they wore them, thats speculative, well at least to me as I am not a sailor. I have my reasons why they would wear them and I have my reasons why they woukld wear shoes as well.

ONE MORE DAY!

Maybe they just come here to read the posts for info and don't have anything to post?

I'm sure they will put it out on DVD.

CAn you get Luan at a normal Harwear store?

Foxe- Yes I agree with you, there is no proof for widespread evidence of boot wearing in the GAoP. I don’t agree with you about Logic though, that’s to speculative, what is one persons Logic is not always the next. Everyone’s reality is relative. Yes I agree with you that there is a huge amount of evidence of other footwear. GOF- I agree with you also, that the boot was a tool, a piece of gear. Also what you said about the weather, it being cold. That’s why, in my opinion, I would prefer to wear something tall and waterproof on my leg to keep them warm and dry. Loose enough, for mobility and have the same sole as a shoe to retain traction. As the pictures depicted. On an individual persona level, boots could be very authentic, but going by pictures, as a group they could lower the level of authenticity as a whole. I to have sent the pictures, to the curator of the museum from which they came.

Any one got any good ideas how I can make one of these.

You can make it a button fly and ad pockets.

Slops Pattern I know others on the fourm have a pattern too.

I was thinkin maybe Sat going in Civi's and Sunday in Garb.

Bump, one week away.

Ye HA 2 More days.

Thank you Kass, .

Shhh...PAtrick you wern't supposed to tell. Well folks, sailors wore boots or should I say wear cause they still do. I have proof of this in the 17th, 18th, 19th and the 20th centuries. Did they wear them all the time? Of course not. But they did wear them and they did have a purpose. I am not going to state purposes because that’s speculative. Above are images, one a pair of boots from the shipwreck Batavia, early 17th century. Two, a couple French seamen, 18th century and the rest are early to mid 19th century. Two images show sailors wearing shoes, but have boots with them as gear. Now all these boots are very similar that span three centuries. They are not the musketeer type of “Bucket Boot”, nor are they the stiff riding boot, but a tall, looser leather boot with the tops folded down. True there is only one pic of a GAoP seaman with these boots, but if this type of style of boot has been with sailors through three centuries, it is my hypothesis that they were worn more than once during the GAoP buy sailors and pirates. In conclusion sailors wore boots. I will still continue to keep up the search for the holy grail.

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