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ˈstitchdown
[f. stitch v.1 + down adv.]
A shoe or boot on which the lower edge of the upper is turned outward and stitched on to the sole; a veldt-shoe. Also stitchdown shoe.
1840E. Stiff Texan Emigrant vii. 95 During the intolerable hot weather in the summer of 1838, the same Kentucky jeans pants, the same pair of stitchdowns,..adorned the tall and disproportioned outward man. 1916F. Plucknett Introd. Boot & Shoe Manuf. xxx. 258 The ‘veldtschoen’, or ‘stitchdown’, has passed through so many stages that no description of it would correctly describe its production in all factories. The principal idea is that the edge of the upper (except just around the heel) shall be turned outward instead of being folded over the edge of an insole, and that this projecting flap shall be attached to the sole with a vertical thread seam. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 888/2 Veldtschoen,..a sandal-like form of shoe in which the upper is attached directly to the sole by a row of stitches near the edge. Also called stitchdown shoes. 1969T. C. Thorstensen Pract. Leather Technol. xv. 248 The stitchdown shoe differs from the Littleway in that the insole is fastened to the upper by flairing the upper outward rather than inward. |
