"Late 19th century. Felt uppers with leather lining and cotton padding and leather soles. Shoes with silk or felt uppers lined with leather were called ttzesahye and were worn by noblemen or boys with everyday attire. White linear decoration appears on the edge of the sole. Similarly constructed shoes with black leather uppers were also worn by upper-class men and women. Hough points out the similarity to Chinese shoes where, as Bernadou also writes, layers of cloth are filled between the sale and insole. "Men's shoes of leather. The space between the inner and outer leather on the sides and soles is filled in with layers of cotton cloth" (Bernadou Field Notes 93). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XX, middle fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 93" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 52]
