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Shoes are made in pairs, that’s been the case throughout history. As such, they are expected to look the same as each other. Even the cheapest shoes have rather high demands of a sync between each other, and then of course the higher the price the higher the demand. For a pair of really expensive bespoke shoes it’s expected that they are more or less identical down to the smallest detail.
A guide showcasing a number of brands who offer welted quality footwear for women. There are quite a few of these, although basically all these manufacturers have the men’s shoe side as their main focus, there’s lots of great options for women as well.
The amazing shoe pictured above looks like it could have been made in the 1920’s by a bespoke shoemaker in London’s Saint James district. The old school-looking aniline leather, the super-classic last shape, the muted yet perfect making, and so on. It’s not however, it’s a newly made sample shoe by Japanese bespoke maker Marquess.
Regular patent leather means that the skin is covered with a glossy plastic film, cheap and easy. These shoes from the Japanese bespoke shoemaker Marquess are made in a really exclusive, very unusual patent leather that has been treated with a kind of waxy surface, which gives the same shine but allows the leather to breathe and receive care as ordinary leather. Patent shoes that have an interesting story.
When it comes to classic shoes, it is in some way almost always a lot of history shown in today’s shoes, since the standard models usually have been around for many decades, or even centuries. However, most of them are modernized in many ways, therefore it’s extra interesting with shoes that, in principle, reflect historical shoes in every sense. Like these very 1930’s looking shoes from Japanese Marquess.
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Yohei Fukuda and Marquess/Shoji Kawaguchi are two of the most well renowned bespoke shoemakers in Japan (and in the world, for that matter), who have a lot of similarities between them. Here’s a nerdy but hopefully interesting comparison between them and their versions of a faux full brogue.
Marquess is one of the brightest stars on the growing Japanese bespoke shoe heaven. When I visited Tokyo the past fall I met the married couple Shoji and Yuriko Kawaguchi who are behind the brand, and talked the 30’s, aesthetic balance and quality as a main weapon.
