I would have brought this up earlier had I not forgotten that for the past year I had a certain texture file that made my orange boots look more in line with the leather on armors and such.
When I recently did a complete reinstall of crpg I noticed the discrepancy and it was jarring (the lighting during these particular pics may not show it, but it's a much brighter orange in game most of the time). And I'd say the same holds true for a lot of the other leather boots, many of which don't really match the leather colors of other things in the game. So the suggestion is a retouching of certain leathers in the game to get them closer to each other and aesthetically more presentable when mixing and matching. I'd say the leather gloves could be a good barometer of where to aim with this.