Wellington Boots

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Wellington boots

Imagine having a boot named after you and two hundred years later, it's still totally en vogue. That's exactly what happened to the Duke of Wellington, who had no idea when he asked his shoemaker to construct a sturdy knee-high boot that in the 21st century, hundreds of thousands of girls at festivals around the world would still be wearing his namesake design, only now with tiny denium shorts instead of his preferred attire, jodhpurs.

Of course the Buke's wellies were made of leather, though it was as early as 1853 that they began to be made of rubbery by Aigle, a company that still makes lovely Wellington boots today. This pair are by Hunter though, a wellie boot brand so successful that it recently started showing on the catwalk at London Fashion Week.

En Brogue, p88-89
Hannah Rochell
ISBN 978-1-473-60650-0

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