Gamaches ( French gamache ) - knitted or sewn from thick thick material covers with plaques , covering the ankles . An elongated version is called ankle boots and reaches the knees. Gaiters and boots served as a substitute for onuch .
Worn over boots . Fastened with buttons on the side. They were intended to protect shoes and legs, since before the start of mass production , shoes were quite expensive to manufacture. In the Western European armies (typical of France and Italy), then in America, shoes with gaiters, from poverty, replaced boots . Gaiters are also used in football and hockey for fixing protective shields.
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Gaiters in literature
Three-year-old Yura, helping his mother outfit little Valya for a walk, pulled out boots, galoshes , stockings and gaiters from under Valina’s bed and, giving, said:
- That's all Valino shoe!
With this common word "shoe", he immediately identified all four objects that were related to shoes.
K. I. Chukovsky " From two to five ."
He began to pull gaiters -
They say to him: not yours.
S. Ya. Marshak “This is how absent-minded”.
We sat down near the locker room, from where the voices of the players came. It was visible through the window how they tried on boots, tightly pulled gaiters, warming up.
Fazil Iskander "School Waltz, or Energy of Shame."
Bending down and taking out a handkerchief, Zaika complained: "Your tsikuta sprinkled gaiters on me." (I don’t remember if I wrote to you that he is a pretty dandy and dresses in the fashion of London.)
Boris Akunin "The lover of death . "
See also
- Boots
- Shoe covers
- Gaiters
- Gaiters in Russia are sometimes mistakenly called leggings .