His cashmere overcoat and tall boots marked him out as a man who was not short of a sheep or two.

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Swift dressed in white top hat, tails, shorts and tall boots during the surreal version of her hummable hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" that included a troop of mime clowns and a guy on a tricycle with a flame-thrower attached.

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He's a tall man in cowboy boots, a pearl snap shirt and a 10-gallon hat, carrying a leather satchel.

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So the boots stayed, making this long, tall Texan even a bit taller.

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The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.

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Journalists covering the war in the early 1980s began hearing of a tall, dapper man in Afghan robes but English-made bespoke boots who was called the Saudi Prince and the Good Samaritan.

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