high button shoe

English
A woman putting on high button shoes (1901).

Noun

high button shoe (plural high button shoes)

  1. (historical) An ankle boot fastened by a row of buttons (in fashion from the late 19th to mid-20th century).
    • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1958, Chapter 6, p. 56,
      A bed slat leaning against the wall, and in one corner a woman’s high button shoe, curled up at the toe and broken over the instep.
    • 1971, Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain’s Horseman, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 19, p. 429,
      She protested she could not read for a part which obliged her to appear in no more than a bra, a corset, and high-button shoes.
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