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The picture - Carved up fitting shoes
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The picture – Carved up fitting shoes

2026-04-03
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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.

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Review - Uppermaking for Bespoke and Orthopaedic Shoemakers, vol. 1
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Review – Uppermaking for Bespoke and Orthopaedic Shoemakers, vol. 1

2026-01-06
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Proper educational books about shoemaking has been a rare sight in recent decades, and books specifically about shoe upper making even more rare. Hartmut and Dustin Seidich, father and son who runs a specialised uppermaking workshop in Germany, set out to change this with an extremely ambitious book project. Shoegazing have read the English version of volume 1.

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News – Korbinian Ludwig Hess RTW

2022-05-27
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Experienced bespoke shoemakers know a lot about shoes, and it’s a positive development to see that more and more of these also take the leap into offering Ready to Wear and/or Made to Order to a larger and larger degree. Latest one is the German bespoke shoemaker Korbinian Ludwig Hess who has developed a fully handmade wholecut slipper offered below €800.

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Report – Gerberei Martin, traditional oak bark sole leather tannery

2021-11-04
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Gerberei Martin is perhaps the oldest still existing tannery in the world, founded in 1645, and run by the same family ever since. They make the most traditional oak bark tanned sole leather around, with at least 24 months in the pits resulting in extremely durable leather soles, and have a highly interesting old-school approach to the whole business. Shoegazing paid them a visit.

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Buying tip – Three highly interesting new shoemakers

2021-03-13
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With the pandemic having the world in its grip for over a year, making it tough for already well-established shoe brands out there, one have to admire – and give support to – the ones who actually set out to start a new brand at this stake. Today I highlight three highly interesting makers of handmade footwear that just started their own brands: Hung Shoemaker from Taiwan, Siroeno Yosui from Japan, and Mogada from Germany.

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