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High-top over the ankle shoes were commonly worn by boys and girls during the late 19th century and early 20th century. We do not yet have a detailed chronology, but we do not notice them in the early 0th century. HBC seems to note this style during the 1870s, but they may have appeared earlier. These shoes looked much like boots. Many of the boys wearing Fauntleroy suits or kiltsuits wore this style of footwear. There were two basic styles of high-top shoes, button and lace shoes. A good example are the shoes worn by Floyd Van Horne about 1915. High-top shoes generally passed out of style in the erly 20th century after World War I. This varied from country to country. We see younger German boys wearing them even after World War II. There were arange of different shoe styles with the high-top shoe.
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