If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture and an 80-word description were still inadequate for style number 3542, one of Justin Boot Co.’s “handsomest” boots, according to a 1939 catalog. “Even a colored photograph fails to do it justice,” the anonymous Justin catalog writer noted. The brown calfskin boot inlaid with white leather diamonds and a crescent-moon-and-star motif in the matching kid shaft is a beauty. Imagine the sensory overload the writer would have experienced
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