Hiking boot
Ankle-high hiking boot made of smooth leather with a coarse lug sole and speed hooks at the top, often welted and resolable. The best-known model has red laces, which have become its trademark. It goes with jeans, corduroy and flannel, with knitwear and a down jacket, in the mountains as in the winter city. It does not go with a sport coat and pleated trousers or with a suit.
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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
- FlannelSoft wool fabric with a brushed, matte surface, often made of woolen yarn.
- 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.