Many bespoke shoemakers cut open fitting shoes to be able to assess certain things even better. Touch, feel and input from the customer may be the most important, but to gather extra data it can be good to get a view “inside”. In the case with this pair an extra feature of the cutting was used, where the maker Patrick Frei cut diagonal lines to let the fitting shoes expand to better evaluate how much needed to be added.
It’s always interesting to see all these various trick that makers use, stuff that might only solve a mini thing but that someone through history – or themselves – come up with. Shoemakers as well as cobblers and often also people working in shoe factories are creative and inventive people, they are great at coming up with solutions and ways to improve and perfect things.
