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
Category: Dress Shoes
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: 3,027
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: 3,974
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: 2,211
Previously Oriental this Japanese preimum brand has been introduced, and Origio is the entry level of this company released in 2017. Post Views: 1,688
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: 1,442
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: 2,377
Miyagi Kogyo was founded in 1941 by request of Japanese Military, and the first factory which imported Goodyear machine. After war, it started to produce shoes for Baker. Post Views: 2,103
A fairly new Japanese brand estalished in 2013. Japanese bespoke shoes and shoemakers are highly regarded globally, however its Ready To Wear is largely unknown and not talked about outside of Japan. The founder, Teppei Yoshimi after study in London Cordwainers College, went back to Japan and opened a shoe repair shop. For the years