Beaked shoe

Beaked shoes
  • Upper left: Beaked boots with strong hook for skis
  • Upper right: Swedish ad for beaked shoes (1929)
  • Lower left: Modern beaked boot with rubber sole
  • Lower right: Older beaked shoes with leather sole

Beaked shoes or beaked boots (cf. Swedish: näbbsko, näbbstövel, lit. 'beak shoe, beak boot') are a type of winter boot featuring pointy, upturned toes, called beaked toes or hooked toes, traditionally intended to aid the attachement of skis and snowshoes. Such are commonly made of raindeer leather, and may have shafts of various lengths.

In historical shoe terminology, "beak" may simply refer to any pointy elongated toe in general, such as that of the poulaine.


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