Scribe Un Oxford
Bally's centenary dress shoe, rebuilt as a modern Oxford.
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Story & heritage
The Scribe is Bally's formal-shoe signature: a line connected to the house's 1951 centenary and named for Paris's Hotel Scribe. Bally's current Scribe Un keeps the idea active, presenting a lighter interpretation at the SS24 fashion show rather than treating the shoe as archive-only.
It also anchors the brand-level story. Bally began in 1851 as a Swiss shoemaking business in Schönenwerd, and the Scribe keeps that origin visible on the modern product grid: restrained, polished, and built around the ritual of a proper black Oxford.
Materials & craft
Bally describes the Scribe Un Oxford as calfskin with a leather sole, joined by Goodyear welt construction. That welted build is the hard point of the shoe: it creates a precise junction between upper and sole and gives the otherwise minimal Oxford its sense of permanence.
How to choose & style
Wear it when the outfit needs quiet authority: dark suiting, black tailoring, or a tonal evening look. The Scribe reads best when the trouser break is clean enough to show the long vamp and the polished toe.
