Saturday, 3 October 2026

Count of Bellamont in a portrait wearing mismatched coloured shoes with spurs

Painting detail: legs in pale blue stockings, one green and one yellow shoe, each with a pink rosette and a gilded spur.

Note that the Count of Bellamont is wearing odd-coloured shoes, and with spurs to boot. Only the most daring dandies could permit themselves footwear of differing colours; it was considered the height of style

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