Object: Boot
Designer:
Paul Poiret
(1879 - 1944)
Manufacturer:
Favereau
Date: c. 1918
Medium: Olive lambskin leather
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2005.45.1
DescriptionPair of high riding boots in olive green lambskin; low stacked heel
Label Text:These boots are from the personal wardrobe of Denise Poiret, wife and muse of the great couturier, Paul Poiret. Madame Poiret caused a sensation by wearing a similar pair in 1913, when the Poirets toured New York City. Her brightly colored, knee-high boots had already "stopped traffic in Paris," according to Palmer White, in "Poiret".
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Boots: The Height of Fashion
- Fashion & Textile History Gallery First Rotation