Clothes from top to toe . . .

What did people wear on their feet?

Most ordinary people went barefoot for everyday activities, as can be seen by looking at the various pictures. However, the women performers, and a White and a Coloured woman, and a White girl, in the crowd, were all wearing fashionable shoes of the period, which do not look very suitable for outdoor wear. A pair of women's shoes from England at the same period is very similar, though it has ribbons to tie around the ankles. 

The male performers seem mostly to have been wearing leather boots or shoes typical of the period. The chimneysweeper's footware seems to be backless shoes or mules, with laces as decoration. A very cool looking young man in the crowd was wearing sandals with two straps over the foot, and perhaps one around the big toe. Most of the men in the pictures are barefoot, including 'Jack-in-the-Green' whose bare feet appear below the branches which make up his costume.

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