footwear vs vesture

footwear and vesture both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
footwear	Yes	No	No	No
vesture	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, vesture is a hypernym of footwear; that is, vesture is a word with a broader meaning than footwear:

Other hypernyms of footwear include article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wear, wearable.

footwear (noun)	vesture (noun)
covering for a person's feet	a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
clothing worn on a person's feet	something that covers or cloaks like a garment

footwear (verb)	vesture (verb)
	provide or cover with a cloak