Soft as suede. Built like a boot.

The Dunn Boar Collection

Soft as suede. Built like a boot.

Dunn is the color, a warm sun-worn tan. Boar is the leather: a dense, fine-napped hide that wears like suede and holds up like the working leather it is. Handmade in Salina, Utah.

  • Handmade in Salina, Utah
  • Boar suede vamp
  • Men's and ladies'
  • Family-owned since 1876
Handmade in Salina, UtahBoar suede vampLeather and Vibram solesSnip toeBuilt to order in every sizeFamily-owned since 1876Handmade in Salina, UtahBoar suede vampLeather and Vibram solesSnip toeBuilt to order in every sizeFamily-owned since 1876
What boar suede actually is

The leather

What boar suede actually is

A suede that behaves like a work leather.

Boar hide is tighter and more densely fibred than the split suedes most boots use. Brushed to a short, even nap, it takes on that soft matte hand you can feel through a glove. But the grain underneath is still full, so it does not stretch out, scuff pale, or go shiny at the flex points the way a loose suede will.

It also breaks in fast. A few wears and the vamp has taken the shape of your foot and stayed there. The nap darkens slightly where it creases, which is what gives an older pair its character rather than its wear.

  • Vamp Dunn boar suede
  • Tops Wild mink, green velvet, canella goat
  • Toe Snip
  • Sole Leather or mini Vibram
  • Heights 12" and 13" men's, 12" ladies'
  • Made Salina, Utah, USA
Dunn goes with what you already own

The color

Dunn goes with what you already own

Dunn sits between camel and sand: warm enough to read as leather, muted enough to stay out of the way. It is the reason this vamp gets paired with everything from black wild mink to deep green velvet without either half fighting the other.

Against denim it disappears in the best way. Against a suit it does the quiet work a brown shoe does. It is the most-worn boot in the shop for a reason.

A boot that looks better in year three

Worn in, not worn out

A boot that looks better in year three

Boar suede does not fade evenly. It deepens where you bend it and stays light where you don't. That is how a pair ends up looking like yours and nobody else's.

The shoot

Dunn Boar, out in it

Shot on location this season. No restyling, no stand-ins, just the boots as they came off the shelf.

More in Dunn

The rest of the Dunn family

The same Dunn tone in other leathers and other builds.

Sizing & fit

If your size isn't on the shelf, we build it

Every boot on this page is made in our own shop, so the sizes listed as in stock are simply the pairs already finished. Order any other size and width and it goes into the build queue the same day.

  • Ships now

    Sizes marked in stock are boxed and ready to go out.

  • Built to order

    Any other size or width, made to the same last, same leather.

  • Widths B through EE

    Men's D, E and EE. Ladies' B and C.

  • Questions on fit

    Call the shop and talk to someone who has made these.

Handmade in Salina, Utah

Find your pair

Five boots, one leather, every size built to order. If you are between sizes or not sure which top to go with, call the shop and we will talk it through.