More Help please / dating mens button up boots

[love4vintage]

Hello again
I'm thinking these are Edwardian era, but the inside has a stamp reading 38- 2 19215. Does this mean these have a date of 1921?? Thanks!!

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[Jonathan]

Factory codes usually identify pattern/style/colour/materials so that factory workers can match up the bits and sew the correct parts together. I only know of one company that incorporated a date in their factory codes, and that was Bata. They used shift/week codes so they could identify the maker of the product for quality control issues. So it would have been something like 9/34 (shift 9 in week 34 of the year, but they don't tell you which year in the code.) Having said that, Your boots look post WW1 to me, and 1921 would be a good possibility. Men's Edwardian boots are spade or round toed, or bulbous toed, but not pointed - that doesn't come into fashion until post WW1 (1919 - 1923)

 

[love4vintage]

Thank you Jonathan for your help, I see what you mean about the shape of the toe. I guess I was a little thrown off, I had seen two pairs of simillar mens button up boots on ebay, ( both listed as Victorian era), in looking at them again I did notice a difference in the shape of the toe. One more ?, in keeping with what you said, I have another ? posted here on a pair of mens shoes, I notice that the toes are pointed on these, but also are kind of rounded & bulbous in shape. Any guesses on dating these? Are these 1920s also? Thanks again!

 

[Jonathan]

I just looked at your shoes and they are about the same period, but holding onto a previously popular style that was falling from favour after WW1 while these boots are following the trendier toe shape style. It just occurred to me that if you got these two pairs of shoes/boots from the same source and they belonged to the same man, they could have been acquired after he was demobilized from the service, probably in 1919.