Everyone can tell this is a Japanese brand and it is, and the most magnificent one. Why? Otsuka was established in 1872 to import western dress shoes into Japan and commissioned Goodyear Welting machine in 1921, it is even the very first batch of shoe factories adopting Goodyear machines. Ever since its establishment, it is
Category: Dress Shoes
The most prestigious brand from Spain, Norman Vilalta. It is the highest end in Spain is quite obvious that Norman Vilalta is a world renowned bespoke shoemaker graduated from Stefano Bemer studio, as a result his Ready to Wear is great. Post Views: 3,637
Union Royal released a child brand in 2003, the selling point is Bolognese Goodyear construction. I know it may puzzle a lot of people, because basically Bolognese construction is a fork of Blake stitches, and the difference is the upper is circled up till the bottom. Plus Goodyear, which means the middle sole is stitched
The name looks like American, but it is Japanese. Also sounds like a casual boot brand, and the fact is it only makes dress shoes, price starts from 750 USD. Post Views: 2,972
Ralph Lauren （不）合理价位：1250美元（紫标） Ralph Lauren的鞋子都是代工的，这个它们自己也毫不掩饰。 Polo线在2000年左右的时候，是Crockett & Jones代工的，然而到了2005年，就不是了，变成了意大利的Sesto Meucci。 Post Views: 3,874
Union Imperial is a brand, and its company is Union Royal, one of the big three Japanese shoe factories， the other two are 2nd Royal Highland and Scotch Grain. Post Views: 2,131
Previously Oriental this Japanese preimum brand has been introduced, and Origio is the entry level of this company released in 2017. Post Views: 1,628
I used to think in Japan this over mature market, no space for new brand, but it is wrong, and Oriental is a good example. Oriental is quite complex, on one hand, it owns a factory and makes private labels for other Japanese brands, on the other hand, it runs a select shoe shop, in
I have seen many Swedish select shoe shops and today we have a look at its neighbor, Norwey, the very respected one, Skomaker Dagestad. It is a boutique with many brands, not only shoes and its carryings are very high end such as Edward Green and Foster & Son. Post Views: 1,400
Another Swedish select shoe shop pushes its private label made in Spain. You can tell how many shops have taken the same path, even only in Sweden. Post Views: 2,329