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Horsehide & derbies
Substantial Goodyear welted and hand dyed Italian leather footwear.
Horsehide and derbies means boots and derby shoes in horse leather, the kind Guidi makes in Italy. Its classic back zip boots and derbies are cut from full grain horse leather and built with Goodyear welts, leather soles and stacked leather heels. The colours run from black to sand, white and red.
Guidi began as a tannery in Pescia, in Tuscany, founded in eighteen ninety six by Guido Guidi, Giovanni Rosellini and Gino Ulivo. It still tans leather and has made its own shoes since two thousand four. Each pair is dyed after it is built, in a turning drum, so the whole shoe takes the colour at once, a method called object dyeing.
WDLT117 in Toronto brings Guidi front zip and back zip boots, lace up boots and derbies, for women and men. Heavy boots go with wide trousers, and low derbies with cropped hems.
