The American heritage footwear company Red Wing reintroduces one of it’s most requested models – the slightly dressier Beckman boot. It’s made with a Gro-cord half rubber sole, and news is that they’ve switched from the often criticised, hard to break-in Featherstone leather to the softer Excalibur.
It’s not often that men’s footwear giant Allen Edmonds introduce new ranges of welted shoes, but this week the launched the new top line Reserve. Better leathers, a new last and some hand finishing details for this new American-made range which consists of four new models in different leather options.
During the 1950’s an amazing shoe shining contest was organised in Wilson, North Carolina, peaking with 12,000 visitors one year. In what was almost like a rock concert the shoe shiners performed their shine work on shoes of people from the audience, where both the final shine and the entertainment they gave was awarded. Read the lovely history of these contests.
We’ve now appointed the three finalists of this year’s U.S. Championships of Shoe Shining, organised in collaboration with the shoe care brand Saphir and the shoe brand Bridlen. At the New York Super Trunk Show on October 5 the finalists will have 20 minutes to shine a shoe as beautiful as possible, to become the American shoe shining champion.
This beautiful chelsea boot by the previous world champion of shoemaking, Wataru Shimamoto of Orma Shoemaker, is made in a very special Japanese leather called Shironameshi, made with an over 1,000 years old tanning technique, that use only salt and rapeseed oil.
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They are seen as the most well-made and exclusive workwear boots in the world, with a current waiting time of six years. The mythical Japanese bootmaker Show Goto only makes twelve pairs of his handmade White Kloud boots a year, plus limited runs of the more basic Jack & White Bros boots. Shoegazing has visited him.
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The British webshop A Fine Pair of Shoes are currently running a clearance sale with really large discounts, up to 60% off, on shoes from among other things Berwick, Tricker’s, Paul Sargent and Sanders.
The huge shoe event New York Super Trunk Show is back for its second edition on Saturday October 5. On central Manhattan more than 15 exhibitors from around the world will showcase, we’ll have the U.S. Championships of shoe shining, shoe patina exhibition, a free shoe shining service, and much more. Here’s all info about the event.
The French brand Septième Largeur has updated their website, and it’s now up there with the best shoe brand websites around. Not only look good with good photos, it’s also packed with information on their shoes.
For aspiring shoemakers, and established ones for that matter, it’s a constant hunt to get a hold of good tools and materials. One of few one-stop-shops online for this is ShoemakerCraft, which has a huge selection of old and new tools, materials, lasts and more.
