BATTS AND BROAGS, BOOTS AND SHOES
“By my Faith! Master Inkpen, thou hast put thy foot in it! Tis a pretty subject and a strange one, and a vast one, but we’ll leave it never a sole to stand on. The proverb hath ‘There’s naught like leather,’ but my Lady answers ‘Save silk:’”
—Old Play.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) · The Wunder Library — complete classics, free to read, with narration.