The first bicolor shoes They were signed by the English master shoemaker John Lobb in the year 1868, and were used to play cricket. Now, more than a century and a half later, these legendary shoes they are more fashionable than ever.
The shoes viewer - nickname that was imposed to designate them - today, they are very elegant. Although by the 20s and 30s they were considered, by many, as ostentatious and even in bad taste. Of course, we do not know if precisely because of that, it was its peak. A fashion that soon jumped the pond and reached the United States, where they also became a trend so it was easy to see them in gentlemen's clubs and fashion sites. Today, we pay tribute to this footwear, which is once again topical, and we propose several models for this Spring Adventure 2014 not only in version Oxford o Brogue, like the originals, but in many more formats.
The english house Paul Smith bet on a model Oxford basic in earth tone combination, an elegant leather shoe in chocolate brown and suede in a camel tone.
In a totally different style and much more informal and casual we find these two-color nautical shoes in white and blue de Polo Ralph Lauren.
Much more modern the pointed last shoes with a marked style rockbilly black and white of Saint Laurent,
We return to the classics but with an updated point with these Brogue with platform forceful in earth tones of the Bertie signature.
We put the most original touch with this proposal from the hand of the Itilaina firm Sergio Rossi, two-tone black shoe with metallic gold details.
We end up with a very original model that the great retailer about the sales online Asos, One fine leather loafers in caramel brown with contrasting detail in velvet in night blue tone.