Over-the-knee boot

A Cuff Boots is a calf bedeckendes footwear with wide envelopes, the cuffs. This worn in the 17th century boot shape developed as the cups of the long boots, boots Ledersen called the Landsknecht costume of the 16th century, which were attached to a belt and worn folded down as bulky cuffs.

In the early days of the Thirty Years War, the cup shape was decisive. Until the middle of the century the boots but were always lower and quite took to elegant forms. Together with the lace cuffs with ornate and so filling the wide cuffs edges of stockings eventually became the subject of luxury. This was accompanied by the increasing importance of fashion known since the end of the 16th century paragraphs.

Today

When jumping and the Hunting boots are often worn with sewn cuffs. Men usually wear boots with contrasting brown cuffs, contrast, women boots with the same color cuffs.

At the Spanish Riding School and special made ​​-to-measure boots are used with cuffs from the time of the Empire. The cuffs extend forward over the knee in upward direction, thus protecting the knee.