A Brief History of Fashion’s Kinkiest Boot Inline

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    Photo: Everett Collection
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    Stocking boots borrow from musketeers and fishermen. From left: Mareen O’Hara in At Sword’s Point, 1952; and Mylène Demongeot, ca. 1960

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    Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 1963
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    “Musketeer boots—shiny, thigh-high, shapely as legs,” Vogue wrote of Roger Vivier’s crocodile thigh-highs for Yves Saint Laurent.

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    Photographed by Henry Clark, Vogue, December 1963
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    The well-heeled Pauline de Rothschild in Saint Laurent Cuissardes.

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    Photographed by Gene Laurents, Vogue, November 1963
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    The streamlined stocking boot look

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    The leather legging look, 1965