veldt-shoes

Updated: May 11, 2025

They were dressed in flannel shirts, rough old jackets of brown cloth, rough trousers with braces, weather-stained slouch hats, and every variety of boot. Only a few had socks. Some wore the yellow "veldt-shoes," some were bare-footed; their boots had probably been taken.

Henry Woodd Nevinson - Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege