Berber

The Babouche

Both men and women throughout Islamic Africa wear the babouche. This style of shoe features a flattened back to accommodate the need to take off one’s shoes for prayer five times a day in accordance with Islam. In the urban parts of Morocco, a man’s wedding shoes might be very elaborate with bright colours and detailed decoration. In more rural areas, the babouche are elegant in their stark simplicity.

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Mustard coloured leather babouche with burned decoration.

Natural flat leather sole with symmetrical last and pointe toe is stitched to the yellow camel skin upper.

Ramskin babouche. Round toe, leather sole of channel, several layers stacked leather heel, nailed on top-piece.