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Just like the fact that good machines are extremely important for shoe factories are good tools of great importance for the bespoke shoemakers. Tools of high quality makes the work more easy, and in some cases the tools are crucial to how well an operation can be performed.
At the moment there’s bit of a craze for unlined shoes going on, not only when it comes to light summer loafers, but also other models. Unlined has some nice benefits, but also brings with it several disadvantages that one should be aware of when buying. Here’s a walkthrough of the properties of an unlined shoe.
How the toe is designed is perhaps the most important aesthetic part on a shoe. With its position at the front, it is the most visible, and much of how the rest of the shoe’s shape is perceived by the viewer is determined by the toe. Of course there are lots of different types of toe shapes, but this is an attempt to categorise and explain some traditionally used toe shapes, and some overviewing categories. I also explained often misinterpreted expressions like chiseled.
Continuing on the theme of what distinguishes shoes in different price ranges, this time in a proper in-depth manner. Together with the shoemakers and cobblers at Skomakeri Framåt in Stockholm shoes from Loake, Carmina and Paolo Scafora have been taken apart completely to the smallest detail to look at how and what they are made of.
Some time ago I wrote a post about the different things that affect how shoes will stretch on the Swedish version of this blog (will be posted here on the English one in the future: EDIT, up now here), a topic that you can say a lot about. That was about shoe construction and how it differently affect stretching, here we look at a few aspects which instead is about how they are, so to say “exposed to” when being used.
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Good fit is the single most important feature of a shoe, even so, a lot of people wear shoes that fits quite bad. It’s, to generalize a bit, usually because of a combination of a lack of knowledge about how a shoe should fit and due to the fact that Ready to Wear shoes are built to fit as many feet as possible. Here’s a walkthrough of common problems regarding fit that one usually see.
The fact that it’s always more difficult to polish up a proper shine on new shoes most have probably experienced. It may, however, differ greatly between manufacturers how easy it is to get them shined well, and a lot has to do with how much cream and polish they received at the factory. These shoes above is a good example, both are new and have been polished on almost exactly the same way, but the end result differs significantly.
I often talk about that fit is the single most important thing when it comes to shoes. An aggravating factor when it comes to this topic is that our feet are in constant change, they change the size through the years, from season to season, and even during the day. Here’s a little more about this fact.
Monk strap shoes is often considered as one of the younger models among those usually referred to as the backbone of the classic shoe models. However, it’s a shoe type that goes far back in time, here’s a review of its history.
Understanding foot structure and the various terms used helps a lot when you’re truing to find the right fit on RTW shoes. Especially if you order over the web and haven’t had the opportunity to try the shoes before, since a good salesman always know how the last and the shoe is for different types of feet you can rule out shoes that won’t fit one just by getting some information over email. Here I intend to go through the different aspects of the foot’s anatomy that are commonly used, and what they mean.
