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Shoegazing Podcast - Ep. 33, Rob James, Euroleathers, about leather wholesaling
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Shoegazing Podcast – Ep. 34, Rob James, Euroleathers, about leather wholesaling

2025-04-21
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Leather wholesalers play a vital part of the shoe industry in every country of the world that produces leather footwear. Euroleathers is based in Northampton, England, and has been providing the local factories for decades as well as single hides to small independent shoemakers worldwide. Learn more about the work leather wholesalers do and get a behind the scenes insight of this sector of the shoe world.

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Super Trunk Sweepstakes 2025

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We are very happy to introduce the Super Trunk Sweepstakes, a raffle where you can enter to win some fantastic prizes from the contest partners – great shoes, leather goods, overshirts and shoe care products. Total value of the prize pool is almost £3,000 (€3,200 / $3,500)! Winners will be announced at the London Super Trunk Show on May 10, visitors there can also double their chance of winning by registering a second entry. Learn all in this article.

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Reflection - How the US tariffs will affect the shoe world
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In-depth – How the US tariffs will affect the shoe world

2025-04-04
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This week the Trump-administration in the US has stirred up a lot of uncertainties domestically and internationally with their new wave of proposed tariffs. In this article I go through how this will affect shoe industry, and also straighten out some common misconceptions. In short: American companies selling shoes made abroad will likely need to raise their prices, in some cases a lot, while private individuals buying shoes from abroad will still have no customs if price is below $800 and products aren’t from China or Hong Kong. For now.

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Report – Brass / Clinch Boots

2025-04-01
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Among the top Japanese makers of heritage workwear boots stands Brass, the company behind the revered Clinch brand. Founded by Minoru Matsuura, Brass has become synonymous with premium craftsmanship, doing handmade really high quality often vintage boots styles that are sought after by customers around the world.

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The web tip - Japanology Plus on leather shoes
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The web tip – Japanology Plus on leather shoes

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Last week the Japanese public broadcasting company’s international TV channel, NHK World Japan, aired an episode of the lifestyle programme Japanology Plus with focus on leather shoes. Here they met bespoke shoemakers like Shoji Kawaguchi of Marquess and Noriyuki Misawa, who also make art shoes, visited a shoemaking school and got shoes shined by Yuya Hasegawa of Brift H. The episode is in English and can be viewed for free online.

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The tip - Never clean shoes in a washing machine
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The tip – Never clean shoes in a washing machine

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I can understand that it’s tempting to just throw dirty shoes in a washing machine on a gentle cycle, get them out looking much cleaner and think all is good. At least more and more people are doing it nowadays, especially with sneakers and similar. Problem is that shoes are not built to go through the stress that a machine wash incur and you’ll risk damaging them in several ways, and significantly shorten their lifespan. Learn why in this article.

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