Nonetheless, with a nearly flat leather sole and few or no buckles, it has a kind of devil-may-care elegance.
The first shoes I brought him were a new pair of babouches, a kind of flat leather mule, with a folded heel, that I had purchased on a trip to Morocco.
The shoes are available only at the Manhattan Belgian Shoes boutique (110 East 55th Street), where they come in every imaginable color and material (lime-green lizard calf, printed pony, ostrich, wool), some with flat leather soles, others with a low wedge heel made of rubber, but all with a preppy little bow on the oval-shaped vamp ($295 to $350).
The newest style here is a fabric shoe with a flat, stiff leather toe, like the slippers ballerinas wear to dance en pointe.
Alberta Ferretti showed flat leather sandals with rope ties.
Most belt drives consist of flat leather, rubber, or fabric belts running on cylindrical pulleys or of belts with a V-shaped cross section running on grooved pulleys.
Her minimalist yet warm designs — flat leather pouches with bold-stripe details or contrasting colored zippers, fold-over clutches, simple totes and duffels that can be monogrammed — have "inspired" similar styles at every price.
Wear flat leather shoes, or flowery plimsoles.
Instead, she favors sturdy footwear like lace up combat boots or black flat leather boots.
(Though "jingle taps" — some loosely fastened taps on each shoe — are what many contemporary cloggers wear, most people in the class wear regular taps. New students who don't have tap shoes yet can wear flat leather-soled shoes, as everyone would have back in the day).
