Civilian Spats

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One difference between the military spats and the ankle spats (besides length) is that the non-military ones cover less of the shoe.

More for info than anything else the British Army also had short spats, these tended to have chains rather than straps across the sole of the shoe and were referrede to as "Chained spats", as with many other forms of dress recently they have gone by the by.