Brogue Monk Strap Sneaker – Black
or 3 payments of £91.66 with Klarna
Between sizes? Go up. Most customers take their regular size.
Next day delivery on all in-stock pairs ordered before 1pm. Ships from our UK warehouse the same day. Free UK exchanges within 60 days.
Upper: Full-grain Italian calf leather. Lining: Calfskin. Sole: Vulcanised rubber. Hardware: Silver-finish double buckle. Handmade in Almansa, Spain.
Use a soft damp cloth to remove dirt. Apply a neutral leather cream to nourish the upper. Store in the dust bag provided. Avoid prolonged exposure to moisture.
HANDMADE FROM FULL-GRAIN ITALIAN CALF LEATHER
The most detailed shoe we make. Traditional brogue perforation — the punched pattern that has marked out serious footwear since the 1920s — applied to black Italian calf and finished with a working monk strap buckle. It reads as a dress shoe at a glance and wears like a sneaker all day.
Broguing is done by hand at our workshop in Almansa, Spain, hole by hole, before lasting. It's one of the reasons this pair takes longer to make than anything else in the range.
| Construction | Hand-stitched, hand-brogued and hand-lasted in Almansa, Spain |
| Outsole | White vulcanised rubber. Clean contrast against the black upper. |
| Upper | Full-grain Italian calf leather with traditional hand-punched brogue detailing |
| Footbed | Italian calfskin over a removable moulded insole |
| Lining | Full Italian calfskin — naturally breathable, moulds to your foot |
Delivered in a branded box with a grey dust bag. Next day UK delivery on in-stock sizes. Free UK exchanges if the fit isn't right.
40 hours of handcraft. Every pair.
Filmed inside our workshop in Almansa, Spain. What you're watching is the shoe you're about to buy, at the stage before it became yours.
Every pair starts with a hide selected by hand in northern Italy and ends 40 hours later in Almansa, Spain.
We use full-grain calf leather from six tanneries in northern Italy — the same region that supplies Hermès and Berluti. Full-grain means the top layer of the hide is kept intact. It is the most durable, most beautiful, and most honest cut of leather you can use.
Lasting is the process of stretching the leather upper over a last — the foot-shaped mould that determines the final shape of the shoe. At our atelier in Almansa, this is done by hand. Each pair is shaped, stretched, and set by a craftsman who has been doing it for years.
Five stages. Forty hours. One pair.
Almansa is a small city in Castile-La Mancha that has been making shoes for 500 years. Our atelier produces approximately 200 pairs a month. They are not a factory. They are a workshop that happens to be very good at what they do.