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Early 20th Century slipper

Last year I had a request for a 1920s style dance slipper. The woman didn’t realize that we do only custom work and that she could choose whatever she’d like to have us replicate. She said that she’d think about it and disappeared. Out of the blue, a picture of a designer shoe from 1925 [...]

Clone Trooper boots in progress

With the very specific specifications that the Tampa clone trooper group had settled on for their boots, we decided to make a vinyl mock-up for fit and to allow the the details to be drawn directly on the boots. That would insure that the finished boots would exactly meet their design specs. We also asked [...]

Turkish slipper for Yale production

Panatlone, one of the characters in Yale University’s spring production isĀ  middle eastern inspired. The shoe was to be a pointed slipper with a gentle upward swoop. Good in theory but not in execution. The result of adding the point to the front of a man’s shoe would have looked better coming out of a [...]

One More for Lord Of The Rings

Not as interesting as the strider boot, but we just finished a pair of boots for a Gandolf costume.

The new challenge is a pair of Turkish style slippers for the Yale Drama Department’s current production. To achieve that soft little upturned toe we are using deer skin. It stretches so we can shorten the top [...]