Unpacking Tibetan boots

Along with some truly miscellaneous crap that came from my last auction buy (IM Chait's tendancy, like most auction houses handling estates, is to lump orphaned saucers and cracked frames in with actually enticing pieces), came these marvelous Tibetan boots.

Doing due-dilligence research on them this morning, learned facinating stuff and tumbled into fringe shoeware category:
Vegan Dance Shoes.

C - shod in un-vegan clogs