The half-brogue, a more old-fashioned style, has a straight toe-cap across the front of the shoe. The austerity brogue has no punching, as the little holes are called.

Brogue trader: the car salesman who sold his sole to the shoe industry - and hasn't looked back since Christian Macnamara left a position at a car dealership to set up a gentleman's shoe shop in a ...

Leather lampshade by Daniel Schofield for Deadgood with a laser-cut pattern and stitching inspired by traditional British shoe-making techniques.