Tag
Many shoe blogs have been started over the years, but unfortunately most are relatively short-lived. One who has been staying around for a couple of years now is Shoe Savante, written by shoe enthusiast Priscilla Leung. The blog deals with high and low in classic shoes with relatively personally written posts.
The Hanger Project’s Youtube channel has released its most ambitious project to date, a one hour documentary about the legendary bespoke shoemaking house John Lobb Ltd. in London.
Ippo is a Japanese manga comic book that follows a young Japanese bespoke shoemaker’s everyday life. Nice enough, English translations of the first two volumes are available online, where you can read the comic book free of charge.
This spring the new blog/website on quality shoes Stitchdown was started, which mainly focuses on workwear boots and more casual shoes. High level of ambition with varied and readable posts.
The first world champion in shoe shining, Yuya Hasegawa, is featured in a new mini-documentary series made by the Japanese public broadcasting company NHK. A lovely little film portraying his way to become a pioneer among the new wave of professional shoe shiners, available to watch with English subtitles.
Articles continued:
Behind Bespoke Addict is Lee Morrison, a British collector of vintage shoes, especially bespoke, and who through the years has refined a method to completely renovate and reshape shoes, making them shrink sometimes as much as 1.5UK sizes. In his new Youtube channel he teaches how.
The social news site Reddit is a community that grows fast, and lately, the so-called subreddit Goodyear Welt – a sub-forum for quality shoes – has become an increasingly important meeting place for many shoe interested people.
Continue reading
Instagram’s significance for inspiration but also knowledge continues to be extensive. Here are ten new tip on interesting accounts all shoe interested should follow.
Shoe care is a subject that is of great interest, and for natural reasons it wo in film format, as you can easily understand how things are done. An excellent source for this is The Hanger Project’s YouTube channel, which releases a new video every week about, in particular, different aspects of shoe care.
The English brand Crockett & Jones is one of the more well established brands when it comes to classic shoes. Tonight they launched a brand new website that provides an excellent overview of their entire range, contains a lot of information about their shoes and the manufacturing, and also have some interesting features such as a guide to help you easily find the right model.
