Beautiful people, please, I need your help with ball shoes!
Setting: February 11th, 1888, Tokyo. My character, a 15-year-old girl, is going to a high-end ball. She has a carriage from door to door, so I don't think she is expected to be walking on snow.
The question is: What kind of shoes would she have? Some sources tell me that they would be flat shoes made of satin or silk, possibly white. In other sources I found the info that for dancing, ladies wore ankle-high (or higher) leather boots, black or brown, which had to be fastened/unfastened with hooks.
Now a bit of background information is that the character is not a girl, is not used to wearing European shoes (had some practice, but not much), and generally is scared to death of the situation he's in. The situation gets worse during the night; he has to make himself scarce, meaning that he must go outside and run like hell through mud and snow. Because of this, I need to know precisely the type of shoes to decide in what shape he'll be when the next thing happens. If he's wearing satin shoes, he'll kick them off, because they're useless; if he's wearing boots, well, it's going to be complicated... or he's going to sprain his ankle. I'd prefer to give him boots, but I'm not sure if I can.
Please help the orc
Setting: February 11th, 1888, Tokyo. My character, a 15-year-old girl, is going to a high-end ball. She has a carriage from door to door, so I don't think she is expected to be walking on snow.
The question is: What kind of shoes would she have? Some sources tell me that they would be flat shoes made of satin or silk, possibly white. In other sources I found the info that for dancing, ladies wore ankle-high (or higher) leather boots, black or brown, which had to be fastened/unfastened with hooks.
Now a bit of background information is that the character is not a girl, is not used to wearing European shoes (had some practice, but not much), and generally is scared to death of the situation he's in. The situation gets worse during the night; he has to make himself scarce, meaning that he must go outside and run like hell through mud and snow. Because of this, I need to know precisely the type of shoes to decide in what shape he'll be when the next thing happens. If he's wearing satin shoes, he'll kick them off, because they're useless; if he's wearing boots, well, it's going to be complicated... or he's going to sprain his ankle. I'd prefer to give him boots, but I'm not sure if I can.
Please help the orc