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Time for another summary of some recent additions to the ever expanding range of quality sneakers. We see them from more and more brands who add this to their range of classic quality shoes, as well as new specialised brands. The variation in styles is also increasing even if the minimalistic ones still stay strong.
There’s no question that the biggest manufacturers of “workwear”, or “heritage”, boots comes from North America, where the largest customer base also is, and many new ones are based in Asia. But with Europe still being the world’s center for quality footwear manufacturing and quality leathers, there’s also a large amount of great boot companies based here. In this guide a bunch of European brands offering solid workwear boots are gathered, several of them likely unknown to many.
The biggest sales period of the year is here. Well, nowadays it starts earlier and earlier, more of a Black Month than a Friday with the following weekend, but nonetheless it’s first today that everyone who do a sale this period has opened up theirs. And there’s plenty of good ones for shoe lovers, here’s a list of some of them.
Even if I mainly show off my various welted shoes here on the blog or in social media, I of course have a bunch of other footwear as well, like sidewall stitched sneakers, Blake stitched Belgian loafers or – as pictured here – Sidewall stitched casual shoes. The soft suede and crepe rubber sole makes them really comfortable and suitable for many informal occasions.
The nowadays undisputed king of sales periods is here, and more or less everyone runs some sort of campaign in conjunction with Black Friday. As always, Shoegazing is here to highlight some of the best ones, to help you find the best deals and get that pair that you both need and want.
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Two weekends ago the first New York Super Trunk Show took place, and what a day it was. About 1,200 shoe and menswear lovers came through the doors and explored the offerings from the 17 exhibitors from around the world, a shoe patina exhibition was held, and the first U.S. shoe shining champs took place. Here’s a summary with loads of photos from the day.
Time to highlight a bunch of quality sneakers – both coming from traditional brands and sole sneakers brands. No news that there is a wide range of choices available nowadays, and not only the minimalistic Common Projects version but lots of different sneaker styles. Here’s some good choices.
On Saturday October 14 the first edition of the New York Super Trunk Show takes place, organised by The Shoe Snob, Shoegazing and Kirby Allison, with main Platinum sponsors being Saphir and Bridlen Shoemaker. On central Manhattan more than 15 exhibitors from around the world will showcase, we’ll have the first U.S. Championships of shoe shining and shoe patina, and much more. Do not miss this day – here’s all info about the event.
For those who don’t know, every year there’s a big “boot and shoe aging” contest called the Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome, where hundres of footwear lovers wear a pair and cover the aging progression during six months. This year I had a pair of Midas Bootmaker x Skolyx x Dr. Sole moc toe boots in natural semi veg tanned leather, here’s a picture special of how these developed during the past half year.
The company i work for, Skolyx, has just introduced a new range of casual stitchdown boots and shoes from the Spanish brand Yanko. A type of footwear that’s soft and flexible, low-priced yet easily resoelable, a good entry-point in to better shoes for many who are used to just cemented stuff, as well as for those who love welted shoes but needs more casual stuff as well.
