Timberland 6-Inch Boot 'Wheat' Moonlight in its bold white-and-carmine colorway

in its bold white-and-carmine colorway

The 6 has always handled saturated colour better than most Jordans

Pivot-circle rubber outsole

Carrying that colorway onto the 11 puts it on a very different shoe: patent leather

Timberland 6-Inch Boot 'Wheat' Moonlight in its bold white-and-carmine colorwayThe Timberland 6 Inch Boot in wheat nubuck is the original, and still the one people mean when they say Timberland. Nathan Swartz's company introduced it in 1973 as the first boot with a waterproof injection moulded sole, aimed at New England construction crews. What happened next was not planned: New York took it, hip hop made it a uniform through the late eighties and nineties, and a work boot became one of the most recognisable pieces of footwear