I just summarized Badia’s collection of styles a few days ago, which surprised me. Because Badia has always been a Goodyear brand in my impression, why was it that most of them were Blake construction? With this question, I consulted JIANG Daoyuan, it turned out that Badia is working on product layout, and shoes in different directions will use different constructions. Blake focuses on lightweight shoes, such as the acclaimed horseshoe buckle Loafer, while the more classic styles will use handwelted construction. If the actual meaning of handwelting is that the shoe can be resoled more times, then the classic and exquisite models deserve it more which is logical.
Let’s take a look at this Chelsea boot from handwelted collection.
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