bootwear means boots (as a category of clothing).
Etymology
From boot + -wear.
noun
- Boots (as a category of clothing).“In the autumn of 1951, the 1st Marine Division received a new piece of cold weather clothing: the boot, combat, rubber, insulated or Insulated Rubber Boot. No one called it anything else but “Mickey Mouse Boots” since their outsized shape and black color gave the wearer some podiatric similarity to Hollywood’s famous rodent. […] One hour of inactivity could bring on an attack of frostbite. The sta”