Le Chameau

Le Chameau traces its origin to 1927, when Claude Chamot, an agricultural engineer, set up a rubber-boot workshop behind an agricultural supply store in Cherbourg, Normandy, aiming to build boots comfortable and durable enough for the farmers, hunters and fishermen who had complained about existing rubber footwear. In 1949 the company opened a second production site in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was at that point the brand adopted the name Le Chameau - French for 'the camel' - as a nod to the new North African factory. Manufacturing has continued in both France and Morocco since. The company's signature process has each pair of boots, notably its Chasseur model, handcrafted from start to finish by a single Maitre bottier using a proprietary natural rubber compound the brand calls Chamolux. Le Chameau has more recently taken on ceremonial and sporting associations in Britain, including as official boot partner of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.