In a world where at least 95% (or something like that) wears shitty shoes produced of subpar materials with the cheapest constructions, every person who go spend a bit more dollars on a pair of Goodyear welted shoes – even if it has celastic heel and toe stiffeners, fibre board heel stacks, thin insoles and neoprene glue all over the place – is a win in my eyes. We can talk with sparkling eyes about the good old days, when “everyone” wore actual handmade shoes of excellent material made by fine craftsmen at larger workshops or at one of the many, many local shoemakers/cobblers around, but those times will never come again, whether we like it or not. One have to be realistic and look to what day and age we are currently living in. My view is that we will always need brands who take lots of shortcuts from making “the best possible shoes”. I myself can bash on various shortcuts done by brands, but bear in mind, I then usually focus on where specs have been changed to lesser quality from before without this being communicated to customers, or when brands have shortcuts that in clearly doesn’t belong within “their price range”, etc. Thing is, this industry, all of it, needs to have those who take these shortcuts – here’s why.
There’s branches of people within “the classic shoe world” who are skeptical against factory-made Goodyear welted shoes in general and all types of shortcuts from making “the best shoes possible”, which ideally would be fully handmade bespoke of absolute best quality.
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