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Handmade leather shoes are produced with great effort, mostly by hand rather than by machine. In most cases only a mechanical sewing machine is used for stitching the upper together - the rest is pure handwork and brings with it qualities that no machine can match. But not all of these qualities are equally important.

The seamless variant is defined by the rear part at the heel. If the upper leather runs there without any vertical seam, then we are in this more elegant variant. This detail looks trivial at first glance, but there is actually more to it.

Wing caps are a beautiful way to decorate shoes - anything from eye-catching to subtle is possible, depending on what other elements are added.

What are the best shoes? You can’t answer that the same way for everyone, because there are different aspects and purposes for shoes that everyone weights differently. Here you’ll learn why, for me, the broad category of well-made leather shoes contains the best shoes of all.

Wholecut shoes are essentially made from a single piece of leather. Many of the connecting seams that otherwise hold together the different upper parts on other shoes are almost completely eliminated here. This makes the wholecut shoe look cleaner and more elegant, especially when the leather is a smooth calfskin without additional texture.

Everyone has seen leather shoes before, but often such shoes are only made of leather to a small extent. Here I’ll show you what makes high-quality, stitched leather shoes.

Goodyear-welted shoes nowadays stand for quality and durability in the shoe industry. Here you can find out which variants of Goodyear welting are out there and to what extent, in my view, label fraud is being committed.

In cemented construction, the upper part of the shoe is bonded to the lower part, the sole, using adhesive. Although adhesive is also used in other constructions, the difference here with cemented construction is that the adhesive is the only means of holding the two parts of the shoe together—no stitching, no nails, and no other connecting parts.

The Blake construction is a very widespread technique for manufacturing shoes that hold together more reliably than purely cemented shoes. Adhesive is only used as a support in Blake-stitched shoes. Furthermore, there are different variants of this construction method, which I will introduce to you here.

Tassel loafers have a decorative lace-like tie that ends at the front with tassels. This makes them quite unusual shoes.