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Bespoke Officer Boots of World Wars I & II

In WWI and WWII, American Field Officers (those of Major or greater rank) were required to have one pair of shoes or boots for their dress uniform and another for the field, but they were not required to procure footwear from the Quartermaster. All shoes and boots still had to meet certain standards defined by the uniform code and in accordance with their division. Officers may otherwise indulge their personal preferences, whether it be a fine calf or vachetta leather, a double-leather or half sole, or even a silhouette based on the boots worn by British or French officers. (This explains why dressy “Jump Boots” of our day have little in common with the knee-high boots worn by WWII Paratroopers—they are based on boots worn by their Airborne Division superiors—those who did more jumping out of Jeeps than an airplanes).

Most officers, being the prudent and practical sort, opted for a variation of their standard-issue footwear, but made-to-measure and hand-lasted from a heavy veg tan leather, a premium rubber half sole, and some subtle hand-finished details they could appreciate without making the wrong sort of statement to their men, most of whom would have been lucky to have any well-functioning boots within two sizes of their Brannock measurement.

Our Field Officer Boot and Lakeshore Jump Boot highlight this footnote in shoemaking history, retaining the form and function of boots assured to all who served—and remaining faithful to the hand-crafted charm of boots commissioned by those who most assuredly would refuse to ever compromise.

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