They often wear a calf-high boot, black, with a brown/oxblood top, maybe 3". Any idea what this style of boot is called? I know it’s a riding boot, but what particular style?
Top boots, I think, are what you’re thinking of. When I get to my laptop and can embed a link to an image, I will.
As well as top-boots with the sort of cuff at the top as revers, there were also those Hessians which went up at the top plainly with a V at the centre, as so:
This from Darling Regency on Hessians.
Not all had tassels, but unlike this pair many were pre-distressed by folding the leather over string ( perhaps when wet ).
Of course, ‘Regency’ is rather a misnomer. Fashions then generally originated in France, or often mitteleuropa, as the word Hessian implies. However the English were a horsy nation back then, so may have been prominent in riding wear, as much as they were in supplying broadcloth to the world.
Yep!
I have a pair I got from Fugawee Historical Footware. They are soft and comfortable.
Here they are on my legs: