Sapucaia Leopard Print Calf Hair Ankle Boots – 8.4cm Wooden Heel
The Sapucaia is not printed leather. It is genuine calf hair, and that is the whole difference: the short natural coat catches the light and moves with it, so the leopard markings have a depth that a flat print never reaches. Look closely and you can see the grain of the hair running across the spots.
The second signature is the heel. Rather than a standard block, the Sapucaia sits on an 8.4cm cylinder turned from dark walnut, with the grain of the wood left visible. Against the caramel and black of the coat, that deep brown cylinder is what turns a statement boot into a designed one. The toe is long and finely pointed, and a gold zip runs down the inner side.
Leopard reads as a neutral more often than people expect. It sits comfortably with cream, camel, chocolate and black, and it does the work of an accessory without adding anything else to the outfit. Keep the rest plain and let the boots speak.
Size & fit: please read before ordering
Made on a French last, cut slim and precise. If your feet are slim to average, order your usual size. If they're wider, we'd suggest sizing up.
The long pointed toe uses up length that a rounded shape would leave free, so if you are between sizes, take the larger one. If you are unsure, write to us at info@mangara.be before you order. It is faster than a return.
Details
- Upper: genuine calf hair, leopard print in caramel and black
- Toe: long and finely pointed
- Heel: 8.4cm cylindrical heel turned from dark walnut
- Closure: gold inner zip
- Lining: synthetic
- Sole: rubber
- Handcrafted in Brazil by Mangará Atelier
Designed and signed by Patricia Cossettin, produced in small runs with leather from Leather Working Group certified suppliers.
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Every brand here packs and posts its own orders, in its own boxes, with tracked delivery. The brands you can see are the ones that ship to your country, so your parcel is usually making a fairly short journey: a potter in Bristol posting to Britain, a studio in California posting within America.
Which does mean that an order from three brands arrives as three parcels, posted by three different people, on three different days. Whether that is an inconvenience or a small extended birthday rather depends on your temperament. It also means three lots of postage, shown before you pay, because we would rather mention it here than at the till.
Roughly how long
UK Domestic: 2–5 business days
Coming from further afield: 7–14 days. Usually quicker, but let's not prmise and it will be a lovely surprise!
Estimates, not promises. Each brand sends its own tracking, so you will be kept extremely well
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Fourteen days from delivery to tell us you have changed your mind, and fourteen more to get it back to us. No reason required, and we will not make you give one.
You are allowed to open it and try it on. Handle it as you would in a shop, and we will not quibble. Handle it as you would a rental car and we may deduct something for the difference.
Return postage is yours to pay, because the brand at the other end is a workshop rather than a warehouse. Some cover it themselves, and if yours does you will not be charged. Whatever you paid us to send it out, we refund either way, and the money goes back the way it came within fourteen days of the parcel reaching the brand.
A few things cannot come back, and only these: anything made or personalised to your order, sealed beauty products once the seal is broken, and anything perishable.
If something arrives damaged, faulty or not as described, none of the above applies. It costs you nothing, and we sort it.
Just email mail@brixbailey.com — we'll guide you through it.
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