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[Grymm]

Any pic or refs to gaiters (Button up) or summat similar being worn in the last half of the 17thC?

[steve stanley]

French Dragoons in leather ones by 1690............

[Chris T]

There are certainly a fair number of images for the first half of the C17th, plus at least one surviving pair in this country from the middle.

I am not all that well up on the second half of the century: but I am sure that I have seen illustrations of late C17th infantry in gaiters.

[steve stanley]

I think Marlborough advocated their use in early C18...I guess He'd seen them somewhere, But I've no record of British Military use earlier......

[Grymm]

Ta, thought just to be occard I was thinking more for civilian usage like farmers or builders rather than soldiers. but any pointers to civilian OR military usage especially images would be dead handy.

[steve stanley]

There's a pair of leather ones in the Cromwell museum at Huntingdon......Marlborough himself wear fabric ones in the Blenheim tapestries.....They do seem to suddenly become widespread in the early C18 for both military and civilian...It's finding the Genesis point!

[Tod]

I think there are some in a picture at Wimpole if that's any help.

[Grymm]

Ta for the pointers, off to track some down.