DUKE OF WESTMINSTER AND GROSVENOR FAMILY CREST
The wellie boot was the height of fashion in the early 19th century.
The humble rubber boot, once the bastion of muddy farmers and straightforward country folk has faced a style resurgence, resurfacing as a staple part of the festival going wardrobe, but it was fashionable much earlier.
1814
This year in history
On March 28, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French proponent of the guillotine, died. Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, but proposed its use to the French Legislative Assembly in the hope that a more humane method of execution would be the first step toward a total abolition of the death penalty. Contrary to popular belief, Guillotin did not die on the machine given his name, but rather from a carbuncle on the left shoulder.