Tan grain is a working finish. The hide carries a pebbled grain, so light scatters across it instead of pooling, and the colour reads as two or three shades of tan at once depending on how the boot is standing. It will never take a mirror shine, and that is rather the point. A grained surface swallows the small damage a boot collects along a wet kerb or a field edge, where smooth calf would show every mark.
Six eyelets carry the lacing high enough to close the boot properly around the ankle, and the brogue punching sits quietly in a grained skin where on polished calf it would announce itself. Give it clothes with some weight: cord, moleskin, heavy chinos, dark denim.
Sizes run UK 7 to 12, with half sizes from 7.5 up to 10.5 and nothing between 11 and 12. F is the standard fitting across John White's range, so your usual UK size is the one to take. Their specification for it is Blake stitch construction, a natural calf lining, a padded seat sock and a studded rubber sole. That last one decides where the boot belongs: a studded tread under a grained upper is built for a wet pavement, not for a morning suit.
John White was thirty-five when he set up on his own in Northamptonshire in 1919, with twenty-three years of apprenticeship behind him. The range is designed in Northamptonshire still and made for the brand by partner factories. The same boot in brown suede is the Bourton suede brogue boot.
Care: Brush the grain out after wearing, since dirt settles into the texture rather than resting on top of it. Feed it with a tan cream worked in using a brush rather than a cloth, so it reaches the low points, then buff lightly. Trees between wears.
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Tan grain is a working finish. The hide carries a pebbled grain, so light scatters across it instead of pooling, and the colour reads as two or three shades of tan at once depending on how the boot is standing. It will never take a mirror shine, and that is rather the point. A grained surface swallows the small damage a boot collects along a wet kerb or a field edge, where smooth calf would show every mark.
Six eyelets carry the lacing high enough to close the boot properly around the ankle, and the brogue punching sits quietly in a grained skin where on polished calf it would announce itself. Give it clothes with some weight: cord, moleskin, heavy chinos, dark denim.
Sizes run UK 7 to 12, with half sizes from 7.5 up to 10.5 and nothing between 11 and 12. F is the standard fitting across John White's range, so your usual UK size is the one to take. Their specification for it is Blake stitch construction, a natural calf lining, a padded seat sock and a studded rubber sole. That last one decides where the boot belongs: a studded tread under a grained upper is built for a wet pavement, not for a morning suit.
John White was thirty-five when he set up on his own in Northamptonshire in 1919, with twenty-three years of apprenticeship behind him. The range is designed in Northamptonshire still and made for the brand by partner factories. The same boot in brown suede is the Bourton suede brogue boot.
Care: Brush the grain out after wearing, since dirt settles into the texture rather than resting on top of it. Feed it with a tan cream worked in using a brush rather than a cloth, so it reaches the low points, then buff lightly. Trees between wears.
You can ask any question about this product.
Our specialists will answer you shortly!
