An Oxford shoe is a type of lace-up shoe characterized by having eyestays (or facings, which contain the shoelace eyelets), attached under the vamp, a feature termed "closed lacing". An Oxford shoe with a common quarter-vamp section joined to the eyestays by a single horizontal seam is sometimes called a Balmoral shoe, particularly in the U.K. This contrasts with derbies and bluchers, which have "open lacing," or eyestays attached atop the vamp.
An Oxford shoe is a type of lace-up shoe characterized by having eyestays (or facings, which contain the shoelace eyelets), attached under the vamp, a feature termed "closed lacing". An Oxford shoe with a common quarter-vamp section joined to the eyestays by a single horizontal seam is sometimes called a Balmoral shoe, particularly in the U.K. This contrasts with derbies and bluchers, which have "open lacing," or eyestays attached atop the vamp.
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