![]() ![]() Those are used along with vintage clothing to get the look just right. Some Leather shoes come with the look of spats over them – sometimes even with Faux spat buttons. If the spat covering is made of rubber, they are used for outdoor work, wet weather work, and protect the pants from getting splashed with water and dirt. They look like the vintage footwear, altogether with the spat covering. ![]() They are fastened under the bottom of the shoe and buttoned up the side.Īs a shoe, Spats indicates ankle boots with a button-across ankle cover. It is also used to refer to a type of shoe with an outer protective covering.Īs the covering over the shoes, they are used as protectors to strap around the pant legs and boot tops, covering them from dirt, water splashes etc, when walking. It was mostly popular among the Victorian and Edwardian gentle men (dandies as they were called) and military officers and they wore them to protect their patent leather shoes from muddy splashes, on their strolls outside as well as a fashion accessory. Wikipedia gives a very good description ” Spats, a shortening of spatter-dashes, or spatter guards are a type of classic footwear accessory for outdoor wear, covering the instep and the ankle.” White/grey spats over shiny leather shoes was a very popular fashion accessory spanning decades in western fashion among men and women. This is a description for Hercule Poirot, that small little big man among detectives, who is always immaculate and well dressed (from the book “Poirot and Me” By David Suchet). The three piece suit, wing collar, shiny patent leather shoes and spats – Very particular over his appearance. ![]()
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