Whatever happened to white canvas brogues for hot weather wear?

In a recent post I mentioned white leather-soled brogues. This reminded me that years ago I bought a pair of vintage canvas brogues from an antiques market in Chelsea, London (unfortunately they never fitted properly). They were ex-Royal Navy - part of a tropical whites uniform.

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In these days of grubby Converse shoes and trainers we could reintroduce a bit of summer style by reinventing the canvas leather-soled brogue. Any shoemakers out there up for this? I suppose that a drawback of white canvas is the difficulty of keeping it clean. I remember having this problem as a child when most cricket boots were canvas. The modern naval equivalents have leather uppers (see below). They can be found at Silvermans, military clothing sellers in the UK.

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