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I have heard of people wearing leggings over combat boots or other mundane footware to make them look like period boots. Does anyone have further information or patterns on this topic.


Yours,
James of York

I have heard of them refered to as "spats". Sorry, I don't have any patterns, but you should be able to do it with normal foot wear patterns, leaving off the bottoms. Then add a strap that goes under the foot (right near the heal on boots) to hold them in place.

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They are about the same as morern military gators. Do a search for ww1 or WW2 military gear and uniforms. There was a web site on garb that had instructions for them. They called them english half chaps half chaps.If I can find the site I'll post the adress. Onz

Thank you for your replies, I used the search engine and found multidtudes of venders, even have them on e-bay. Thanks again

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Yours,
James of York

Here is a link on how to make them. http://www.garbmonger.com/footwear.html They are fairly easy to make.Good luck. Onz

ONZ that is exactly what I was looking for, you have saved me quite a bit of money, well now I have to go buy some leather. Thanks again.

Well, I bought some black vinyl for $3.77 a yard and made a pair. They don't look half bad, thanks again for the link. I may just make some leather ones when these fall apart.