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During the pandemic few people wore or ordered bespoke shoes – so what to do as a bespoke shoemaker? In Hiro Yanagimachi’s workshop in Tokyo, they spent the calm period to develop a completely new product for the new world: the hand welted LS1 sneaker. Built to merge the best from handmade dress shoes and casual sneakers – which has since been a smashing success.
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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.
More and more quality sneakers are flooding onto the shoe market, both styles and available quality has developed in several regards since last time I wrote about the topic two years ago. Here’s a new roundup of a bunch of sneakers and trainers that could be of interest for the quality conscious shoe buyer.
It’s becoming a tradition that I once a year highlight the news that has emerged in the market of quality sneakers. This isn’t Shoegazing’s focus area, but the interest is great, and as the quality of many of the sneakers has increased and now as more and more cobblers are offering resoling of the so-called Margom sole types, they have parts in common with classic quality shoes.
Since the last post I wrote about sneakers of better quality, a lot of new options have arrived on the market, not least it has become more common for makers of classic Goodyear welted shoes to also start offering sneakers. Here’s a review of a bunch of good alternatives, and also about the fact that more and more cobblers nowadays can resole some of these types of sneakers.
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How to combine the two strongest shoe trends in recent years, with traditionally constructed quality shoes on one side and casual sneakers on the other? Of course, by making sneakers made of higher quality and, in many cases, mixing methods from traditional footwear manufacturing.
