boot; legging (clothing: outerwear); tsholham

One of a pair of man’s boots, tsholham, with integral textile leggings. White leather sole wraps around the lower part of the foot front back and sides. Blue cotton fabric forms the legs. Applied pieces of green felt to either side of foot. The leather sole is stitched to the upper over the applied elements. A strip made of pink felt below and green cloth above is stitched to the underside of the blue cloth forming the leg, running from close to the toe to the front of the leg above the ankle. A length or red fabric runs from above the heel to the top of the boot, split in the upper part and trimmed with blue checked fabric. Green and yellow cord trim runs around this element and continues at the front of the boot. Lined in red fabric.

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