Dragon Keeper - strange fashion

[McWolf]

Now that you mentioned it, I remember the overuse of 'soft leather boots'. I can remember thinking at the time 'she must have a shoe fetish.' Hobb's thing may be clothes.

I can remember one author I read, Lawhead, spent an abnormal amount of time describing in detail the meals which the characters ate during his novels. And then there is Tolkien who spends pages describing a rocky mountain.

Yet if novels didn't focus on small details like clothing, food and landscapes then experience of reading a novel would be that much poorer.