Red leather boot with side buckle

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A single dark red leather book with a side buckle. The boot features a rounded toe and a stacked wooden heel and there is a slight curve at along the top of the front panel. Three red leather panels create the outside of the boot, which are seamed together at the center back and at each side of the boot. One continuous panel of red leather extends from the top of the boot to the toe and the front panel is attached to proper right side panel with a felled seam. There is a black metal zipper with a matching pull that separates the front panel on the proper left panel on the proper left side. Two narrow decorative red leather straps, that are attached around the ankle cross over each other at the center back and meet with a 1.25” wide brass ovoid shaped buckle on the proper right side.

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