Those topped with light leather.

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1826.  [John Randolph’s] appearance is as grotesque as formerly, except that he does not wear his hair so long. His usual dress in the Senate is a blue coat, buff vest, with red sham, drab small-clothes, and fair-top boots—and (à la Pinkney) he wears and sometimes speaks in white gloves.—Washington letter of March 2 to the Rhode Island American.

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