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The hide is cut at right angles to the backbone and the resulting pieces termed a "front" (the forward part) and the "butt". The term cordovan leather applies to the product of both the tanned fronts and tanned butts, but is especially used in connection with the term galoshes, meaning the vamps or boot-fronts cut from the shell of the butt. [4]
In this usage, a cordwainer is someone who makes new shoes using new leather, whereas a cobbler is someone who repairs shoes. [1] Medieval cordwainers used cordovan leather for the highest-quality shoes, but cordwainers also used domestically produced leathers and were not solely producers of luxury footwear.
Horween Leather Company supplies leather shells for footwear to the Timberland Company, Alden Shoe Company (their largest cordovan customer; it became a customer in 1930, buying shell cordovan and other leathers), Cole Haan, Allen Edmonds, Nomad Goods, Brooks Brothers, Hanover Shoe, Chippewa Boots and Johnston & Murphy.
Cordovan may refer to: Shell cordovan, a type of leather; Cordovan (color), a shade of red-brown; Cordovan (bee), a breed of the Western honey bee; See also.
Cordovan leather may refer to: Leather from Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain; Cuir de Cordoue; Shell cordovan This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 03:45 (UTC) ...
Dress shoes on a woman (left) and a man. (right) A dress shoe (U.S. English) is a shoe to be worn at smart casual or more formal events. A dress shoe is typically contrasted to an athletic shoe. Dress shoes are worn by many as their standard daily shoes, and are widely used in dance, for parties, and for special occasions.
The pope traditionally wore the slippers inside the papal apartments, while red leather papal shoes were worn outdoors. Pope Paul VI discontinued the use of the papal slippers but continued to wear the red outdoor papal shoes, which were abandoned by Pope John Paul II in favour of cordovan brown leather walking shoes made in his native Poland. [1]
Cordovan is an equine leather made from the fibrous flat muscle (or shell) beneath the hide on the rump of the horse. The only way i can make sense of that sentence is to pare it down thus: "Cordovan is an equine leather made from skin of the rump (or shell) of the horse."