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New casual shoe collection on the way for 2022

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Its about time that I started work on a newer and better collection of causla shoes, I cant make the athletic shoes as that's a whole different constuction process. Ive had a few idea's these past few years and now is the time to act on it. Below is the MST Kazule 005 Created using an EVA Rubberised foam sole. The New Collection is called Kazule, A play on the word Casual I guess. MST Kazul 004                                                This will come in a range of colours thats for fore                                                              A dam fine kazual sole   I will make changes to the fabric band over time.                         ...

Deep Dive review by a Thai Blogger

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We are Don's Footwear. We created this pair of shoes for a well known and respected Thai Blogger called shinable.co run by the talented Mr Da. We made him a fully bespoke pair of shoes so that he could review and share the experience of creating a fiddle waist pair of handwelted shoes. I'm really happy with the outcome, His blog really is a deep dive into the bespoke process, and the way we undertake the order. You can see Mr Da's has broken down the review of the bespoke order into 4 parts, with one more blog to come later after he has worn them for a while. He selected our fiddle waist sole option( or Fiddleback) This is our hand welted signature look that we call Echelon grade. What separates from others is that we like to create ours using pegs. https://shineable.co/traditional-bespoke-lastmaker-dons-footwear/  Deep Dive Review Measurement Process  and his latest blog from Feb 2022 on the shoe trees that we create. Shoe Tree's This is where Don's footwear i...