Fifteen per cent off your first pair.
The Inner Circle

Fifteen per cent off your first pair.

Join the Inner Circle and we will send you a code for twenty per cent off, plus first sight of new arrivals and the pairs that only come back once.

Free UK next day delivery · Free returns, no printer needed
John White Inner Circle
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Join the Inner Circle

Fifteen per cent off your first pair. We send a few emails a month and you can leave whenever you like.

Why the Inner Circle exists

Most of what we make sells through once and does not come back. The list is how we tell people first, and the fifteen per cent is how we say thank you for joining it.

A shoe house, not a shoe brand
Since 1919

A shoe house, not a shoe brand

John White has been putting men in good shoes since 1919, from Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire. We design the lasts, choose the leather and set the specification, then work with the makers who can hold it. The name has been on the box for over a hundred years, which is a long time to keep getting it wrong.

Leather, top to bottom
What you are paying for

Leather, top to bottom

Look inside a cheap shoe and you find fabric. Look inside ours and you find a full leather lining and a removable leather insole, because leather moulds to your foot and fabric does not. Polished calf uppers, clean stitching, and a sole chosen for the weather the shoe is meant for.

Chelsea boots, chukkas, Oxfords, derbies, loafers
Shoes and boots

Chelsea boots, chukkas, Oxfords, derbies, loafers

Boots for the wet half of the year and shoes for the rest of it. The Brecon Chelsea in polished calf, the Castle chukka, the Guildhall capped Oxford, the Monkton double monk. Full sizes across the range, and free returns if the fit is not right.

Est. 1919
A Northamptonshire house, founded 1919 in the historic home of British shoemaking.
Free next-day delivery
Ordered before 2pm, dispatched the same day, on your doorstep tomorrow.
Returns without the faff
Thirty days, free, with a QR code at the Post Office. No printer, no label, no cost.