The Derby Vegan Women's Sustainable Activewear WVSport The rope is left visible

The rope is left visible all the way round — pale

so they wear like a shoe with the coverage of a boot

soft in the hand with a low sheen that catches the light across the shoulders and the sleeves

An ankle boot cut short and shallow

in the dark brown it warms up and leans more into that heritage

The Derby Vegan Women's Sustainable Activewear WVSport The rope is left visibleOur notes We should say at the outset that we love these shoes. They're the pair that gets picked up and turned over in the studio, and the naming took longer than it should have not quite a loafer, not quite a derby, and briefly a candidate for just being called The Shoe. The line is the loafer's: an unbroken sweep from the throat over the vamp and out to a long, softly pointed toe, with no lacing, no seam, nothing to interrupt it. What it borrows