Dress boot

Built like dress shoes, but with uppers covering the ankle, versions of the boots are used as an alternative to these in bad weather or rough outdoor situation, and as a traditional option for day time formalwear.

Patent leather use during day dropped, and formal morning clothes soon incorporated either shoes or plain calf dress boots.

[1] The tolerance for fit with this kind of boot is less, so they are more expensive, though more traditional, and a button-hook on the end of a shoehorn may be needed to do up the buttons.

The boots sometimes have toe-caps,[5] which can feature a brogued seam, a reference to their original informal use for business.

More recently, boots of this style have seen a revival as part of the Neo-Edwardian fashion popular among British indie kids.