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thumb|A pair of "vellies"
Veldskoene ("FELT-skoona") or colloquially vellies ("FELL-ys") are South African walking shoes made from vegetable-tanned leather or soft rawhide uppers attached to a leather footbed and rubber sole by a method known as stitchdown construction, done without tacks or nails.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Veldskoen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.