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Timberland 6-Inch Boot

Everything we hold on this shoe: 3 written pieces.

Timberland is named after the boot, not the other way round. The company was called something else until the yellow boot took over the business in 1978.

The yellow boot


The spec

BrandTimberland
ModelTimberland 6-Inch Boot

No style code and no colourway here. Both come from the retailer listings on the calendar ahead, and this shoe has nothing on it, so the rows are absent rather than guessed at.


What we have written

Every piece, with the place each claim came from underneath it. Where we could not reach a source we say so instead of quietly leaving it out.

The shoes history

The yellow boot

Nubuck is top grain leather sanded on the outer side to raise a short nap; suede is made from the underside of the hide, which is why the two feel different
Wikipedia, read 2026-08-31

The shoes fact

A product so good the company renamed itself after it

Same sources as above on this page

The shoes news

Nubuck is the tough outer surface of the hide with a nap sanded into it

Same sources as above on this page


What we do not hold on the Timberland 6-Inch Boot yet: nothing on our UK release calendar and no reading in our price index, so no ask we could quote. Everything above is what we do.