Button boots Industrialization - Making Shoes with Machines By the end of the nineteenth century, most of the shoes that Canadians wore had been made in factories in the United States or Canada. Button Boots - Machine-Made Variety Canadian factories made large numbers of women’s button boots, a style that was particularly popular in the early years of the twentieth century. A woman could purchase the basic style with a choice in quality, allowing her to select a boot to match her budget - compare the high quality of the boot with white piping to the shoe below it of a lesser quality. The Button Boot style was preceded by a very similar scalloped edge version - seen here with the trade card of the maker. Even after they started to go out of fashion, shoes resembling low-cut button boots were made and purchased. Continue >> Low cut button boots Trade card