There's open laced shoes and closed laced shoes.
All the rest is simply not descriptive but confusing and unnecessary.
Closed laced shoes can be brogues as can open laced.
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Bróg is Irish for shoe, and they were originally pierced, untanned leather for trotting on bogs. Along with the food from the mouths of the people, the Saxons also took the shoes from their feet, and named them as their own.
You gents have really nailed this. Not only the colloquial use of terminology in the US & UK but the erroneous and confusing perception of what is "correct".
DAMNED SAXONS!
A gaggle of iGents in a shoe circle:
"Well, my CD says a balmoral being a certain type of oxford, an oxford being, blah, blah, blah....."
"Brogue is Gaelic for shoe; it is a type of shoe; no it is a style; there are no brogues because you rarely if ever see anything other than blind broguing. Full brogue/wingtip, half/brogue, quarter brogue. Adelaide oxford brogue; full brogue/wingtip/blucher/derby/long wing/American brogue/galosh...."
It is confusing and so often the terms are improperly used.
Maybe we need an international IGent numbering system that we all can memorize instead of using words.
"Wow, Stitchy, are those 56's?"
No Spoo, they are 87's"
"Ah yes. How do they fit?"
"Who cares, they are made out of possum anus leather"
"Man, those cats at NMWA, sure know how to put together a group MTO"
"Yup, ruby red possum anus is the rarest colour"
And then he leaves, clown shoes slapping the pavement. Clumpity, clumpity, clump.