Could this be palm leaf green, a very popular colour at this period? These side laced ankle skimming boots were called Adelaides after Queen Adelaide (on the throne 1830-37), consort of King William IV. Popular for daytime wear and known as gaiter boots in America. Introduced in Britain in the 1830s the boot was very popular in Britain and caught on throughout Europe and North America by the late 1840s but fell from fashion when the front-lacing boot was introduced in the late 1850s. These would probably have been worn by a middle class lady for outdoor wear.
with side lacings and ten embroidered eyelet holes, the dark green cotton with black leather toecap, rand and very shallow heel, leather soles for right and left feet, lined with natural cotton, hand sewn, 9 1/4 in; 23 cm long.
Later lacings. Very good indeed. The right hand boot has two small holes near the lacing and one on the heel. The left boot has a small hole near the lacing, one further down and a larger 1/4 in; 1 cm diameter near the rand. The other side two small holes.
Pratt, Lucy & Woolley, Linda Shoes
Walford, Jonathan The Seductive Shoe p 74
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