I need to see the reference model underneath. Wireframe display is not helpful for me. It's far too cluttered.

I need a view like in the below photo. Which looks like that because the other boot is in front.

http://i.imgur.com/jOk6u0R.png

As it is it looks like this and I'm having to guess where the boot is.

http://i.imgur.com/Y1X12hG.png

Edit:

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this. But I found a way to make the Mesh display easier to use. In user interface, you can set the color of the wires. So I set the background wires to red and the foreground to green.