Chukka boot
Ankle-high lace-up shoe with open lacing and only two or three pairs of eyelets, usually in suede. A variant with a crepe sole is known as a desert boot. It is casual and goes with jeans, chinos and corduroy, also with an overshirt or knitwear. With worsted and suits it is too relaxed.
In the catalog
From the Guide
- Boots need trousers with weight: safe with jeans, taupe, olive and brown. With light summer trousers they are too heavy.
- Boots suit chinos in fall, not linen trousers in summer.
Related terms
- Penny loaferSlip-on shoe without laces, with a saddle strap across the vamp that has a small slit cut into it.
- Tassel loaferLoafer with two small leather tassels on a cord that runs around the upper and sits on the vamp.
- Horsebit loaferLoafer with a metal bar shaped like a horse bit across the vamp.
- Belgian loaferVery soft, light slip-on with a small bow on the vamp and a thin, flexible sole.
- Venetian loaferLoafer with no strap, tassel or bar at all, just vamp, seam and upper.
- Driving moccasinSoft moccasin with a sole made of rubber nubs, which often extend up over the heel.