Penelope Chilvers
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500 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2 Feb
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It's probably the most difficult boot I ever made.
To reinvent it now is quite hard.
It's an equestrian boot, so it's cut tight to the leg.
It's got an elegant ankle, a long shaft, a zip on the outside.
And when you're riding, you can't have a zip on the inside because it can rub on your leg against the horse.
It's on a tread sole, which you possibly call a yard sole in the equestrian language.
And it's made of a vegetable dyed conker brown leather, which has a beautiful patina and gets better and better with age.
Well, she looks incredibly good in them, so I'm very lucky.
She actually just wore them very recently, just after Christmas, when on her birthday she released a beautiful film about being at one with nature and how important that is for the soul.
And she was wearing our boots again.
Really authentically loving the boots.
And she wears, they're an outdoor boot.
They've got a purpose.
They're a very purposeful design.
They're a great walking boot.
Well, I do believe in making footwear that lasts a lifetime, you know, and that boot construction, which we, we use in three of our workshops is called the Goodyear welt.
And that was well, if it was in England, it was a Victorian piece of machinery that
You, it's a double stitch sole so that you can take the sole off, the heel and sole off and then resole.
And it's the most, it's probably the best construction there is.
And it's the most expensive as well.
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