A shoe upper, having an upper outer material (13) with a lower outer material end region (19) located in a lower upper end region, an upper lining material, which is arranged on the inner side of the upper outer material (13), incorporates a waterproof functional layer and has a lower lining material end region (21), the lining material end region (21) having a lining edge that is not covered by the upper outer material (13), and a connecting band (17), which extends in the peripheral direction of the upper end region and is joined on a first longitudinal side (23) to the outer material end region (19) but not to the end region (21) of the lining material, and is joined on a second longitudinal side to the end region (21) of the lining material but not to the end region (19) of the outer material, wherein at points of curvature of the lower periphery of the upper end region the connecting band (17) extends in an arc corresponding to the local radius of curvature, with the two longitudinal sides of the connecting band having different degrees of curvature, , in such a way that, for an arc sector lying in the respective curvature, with a predetermined unitary sector angle, the arc lengths of the two longitudinal sides of the connecting band sides belonging to this arc sector differ from each other the more the greater the curvature of the respective arc sector is, the arc length of the first longitudinal side of the connecting band being longer than the arc length of the second longitudinal side of the connecting band at points with convex curvature of the lower periphery of the upper end region, corresponding to the different curvatures and arc lengths of the outer material end region and the lining material end region.