I've also been looking for vintage style "foot breeches," which has brought me to this place. So far I haven't got any and I'm still looking. I have examined some original pre WWII US cavalry cotton twill breeches (right size, too) but they have too much flare. I do know the WWI style regular issue (enlisted, anyway) breeches were about right but I haven't had a laying on of hands with a pair of them yet.
When I was in grade school, one of my neighbors was a linesman for the local power company in West Virginia. I frequently saw him wearing the high lace-up boots and breeches. I don't remember it very clearly but I suspect the breeches were corduroy. Pole climbers still wear the high boots but breeches went out with hats, apparently. One place I lived in West Virginia (in a log house) had a pair of old riding breeches for a woman that had evidently belonged to my step mother. They buttoned up the side.
Not to change the subject but does anyone besides Filson make "tin pants" or something similiar, like canvas hunting pants?
When I was in grade school, one of my neighbors was a linesman for the local power company in West Virginia. I frequently saw him wearing the high lace-up boots and breeches. I don't remember it very clearly but I suspect the breeches were corduroy. Pole climbers still wear the high boots but breeches went out with hats, apparently. One place I lived in West Virginia (in a log house) had a pair of old riding breeches for a woman that had evidently belonged to my step mother. They buttoned up the side.
Not to change the subject but does anyone besides Filson make "tin pants" or something similiar, like canvas hunting pants?