desert boots
Are they the ones Pat Boone used to wear?

Remember, this was the era of blue suede shoes, a la Elvis. I don't know of anybody else who wore blue suede shoes.

Then, also in that era, there were the highly polished black leather shoes with the pointy toes which were known as "nosepickers", or "cockroach killers" because it was said they were the best for getting the bugs which ran into the corner of the room.