Talk:Dress boot

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Thanks for pointing out these issues, of which I was aware. The article has only been up for about a month, and I have not yet had time to add references and so on. Give me a bit of time to clean this up before deleting anything, since this should soon be a worthwhile stub. —Kan8eDie (talk) 18:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

"smart" boots?
I'm a Yank who is not familiar with the use of smart in this context. Could this be explained in the article, please? Wnissen (talk) 04:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That term should be fairly self-explanatory (it is 'smart' in the sense of 'smartly dressed'). I have cleaned up and expanded the article to hopefully improve the clarity.— Kan8eDie (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Men didn't wear shoes?
This article makes the curious claim that men never wore shoes before the end of the Victorian period. This is surprising, considering that the Wikipedia article entitled "Shoe" devotes a very substantial section to the history of shoes, as worn by both men and women, from 3500 BCE all the way up to today. I find it hard to believe that there were no men's shoes from the dawn of time to the end of the 19th century.Chalkieperfect (talk) 01:44, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

I feel like this must be a misinterpretation of the source, or a misstatement. There are many examples of men's shoes from before the Victorian era, more than examples of boots even, in the Middle Ages. Someone should look at the source for thag jnfo, and figure out what's beig said. ThanatorRider (talk) 10:05, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

It's complete nonsense AFAICT. The source says nothing about the history of boots or shoes, and nothing about the fashion of any era except the one that it's a guide for (1907). It mentions pumps being worn by men for dancing, in passing. Maybe the contributor intended the source to relate to the mention of pumps? The statement itself (that men didn't wear shoes) is still obvious gibberish. fashion-history.lovetoknow.com has what looks like a pretty good overview of the history of boots. It has a bibliography that someone with more time could look into. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.103.137.57 (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

I think it's fairly obvious that the source is referring to "gentlemen" rather than just "men" in general ;) 81.157.205.161 (talk) 21:17, 4 June 2019 (UTC)