Went out at lunch and tried on a pair of dries van noten snakeskin brogue captoes. Black iridescent colour that has tones of brown, burgundy and silk in it depending on the light, natural welt and a big crepe sole.
Similar to these ones stocked by Browns but with
much smaller scales (it doesn't even look like snakeskin from a distance) and with broguing.

The toe cap is just repetitions of the perforated "cap" section.
Artist's impression:

Describing them makes them sound horrible and if one saw them online (if anywhere stocked them) you'd look over them but in person - wow. Extremely comfortable too.
That makes it three dries shoes I can't choose between now.