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What is this style of shoe called?

rrilo24

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Hi,

I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I like this style of shoe and am curious as to what it would be called and how i would find others like it. They are listed as being Salvatore Ferragamo, which I'm guessing is the company name? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!

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This is a basic cap toe ankle boot.

a balmoral boot would have a horizontal seam across the quarters, not a seam going down to the sole across the quarters.

An ankle boot like this with open lacing and two to four eyelets would be considered a cap toe chukka.

Open lacing on a boot with more than four eyelets would be considered a blucher boot.

Since it is a closed lace boot it really falls into the oxford class of shoe/boot. In fact the original oxford boot looked very similar to this, although some designs had the eyelets running diagonally down the side of the boot toward the vamp.

I have an illustrated list of over 50 different men's shoe styles on my blog for reference (see my sig below).

To search the internet or online shoe stores I would use phrases like "mens laceup captoe ankle boot" or just "mens ankle boot". This should give you both open and closed laced models.

An example of a closed laced ankle boot is the Johnston & Murphy Newell boot. Johnston & Murphy is the manufacturer and Newell is the model.
 
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topos

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This is a basic cap toe ankle boot.

a balmoral boot would have a horizontal seam across the quarters, not a seam going down to the sole across the quarters.

An ankle boot like this with open lacing and two to four eyelets would be considered a cap toe chukka.

Open lacing on a boot with more than four eyelets would be considered a blucher boot.

Since it is a closed lace boot it really falls into the oxford class of shoe/boot. In fact the original oxford boot looked very similar to this, although some designs had the eyelets running diagonally down the side of the boot toward the vamp.

I have an illustrated list of over 50 different men's shoe styles on my blog for reference (see my sig below).

To search the internet or online shoe stores I would use phrases like "mens laceup captoe ankle boot" or just "mens ankle boot". This should give you both open and closed laced models.

An example of a closed laced ankle boot is the Johnston & Murphy Newell boot. Johnston & Murphy is the manufacturer and Newell is the model.

So it would have been better to call it an oxford and not a balmoral since a balmoral is a type of oxford of which this shoe isn't. So much terminology for seemingly minor things! (Your little shoe blog is cool)
 

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So it would have been better to call it an oxford and not a balmoral since a balmoral is a type of oxford of which this shoe isn't. So much terminology for seemingly minor things! (Your little shoe blog is cool)


Thank you for the nice comment about my blog.

Actually, referring to oxford type shoes as balmorals is a fairly common Americanism. And, while this seems like a minor semantic, it is a pretty important distinction to those that make balmoral boots.:)
 

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Thank you for the nice comment about my blog.

Actually, referring to oxford type shoes as balmorals is a fairly common Americanism. And, while this seems like a minor semantic, it is a pretty important distinction to those that make balmoral boots.
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You're welcome. And I learned the very fact you mentioned from your blog earlier today. Someone should create a "tree of life" for shoes, or some kind of diagram which indicates how "close" a given pair of styles are. But maybe that's taking this sickness a bit too far . . .
 

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