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Style never stays still.

The wingtip shoe is instantly recognizable, but its function and the details of its form have changed over the years, from its peasant origins to 21st-century updates and interpretations from some of the top shoe houses in the world.

What Is a Wingtip?

In broadest terms, a wingtip is any shoe in which the toecap is extended with low "wings" that reach around the side of the shoe.

Get much more specific than that, however, and you start encountering exceptions.

Most wingtips – but not all – are brogued, meaning they have decorative perforations along the edges of the toecap, and often in other places as well.

Many wingtips – but not all – extend the wings all the way around to meet at the back of the shoe, creating a low band of leather that circles the shoe where the upper meets the sole.

And some wingtips, but certainly not all, opt for a "two-tone" color scheme wherein the body of the shoe is one color and the toecap with its wings another.

So there are many varieties, but they all share one defining feature: an extended toecap with wings that reach around the sides of the foot.

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