Bessie Vintage Aviator Boots (Brown) Blue Sacque Gown

Sacque Gown

Materials Color Black Satin / Silver Leather

The petticoat and gown skirt are shaped to fit over pocket hoops (Simplicity 8579)

These booties are based on original Montgomery Ward overshoes

and double straps at the top

Bessie Vintage Aviator Boots (Brown) Blue Sacque GownOnward to adventure in the stunning reproduction Bessie Vintage Aviator Boots! These beautiful all leather boots are carefully recreated from two pairs of original 1930s women's sporting boots right down to the nifty side pocket. We've named these vintage reproduction boots after Bessie Coleman, the first Black and Indigenous American woman to hold a pilot's license. Bessie traveled to France in 1920, learning to fly a Nieuport 564 biplane, and