Custom Renaissance Boots » shoes for theater productions http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com Made to order footwear for Renaissance Faires, SCA, fantasy and science fiction fans Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Turkish slipper for Yale production http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/03/turkish-slipper-for-yale-production/ http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/03/turkish-slipper-for-yale-production/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:42:25 +0000 admin http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/?p=175 Panatlone, one of the characters in Yale University’s spring production is  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 [...]]]> Panatlone, one of the characters in Yale University’s spring production is  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 clown car than on stage. We had less that two days to redesign,  produce the replacement, and get it from San Diego to Connecticut in time for the evening performance. Did it and they were very happy with the results. They will join the other six pairs we made in what I’m sure will be a successful show.

Sketch for Panatlone

Sketch for Panatlone

Turkish style slipper

Turkish style slipper

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]]> http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/03/turkish-slipper-for-yale-production/feed/ 0 The Ivy League came calling http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/01/the-ivy-league-came-calling/ http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/01/the-ivy-league-came-calling/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:05:46 +0000 admin http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/?p=116 I had an interesting call from a nice young man in the Yale University theater department. He needed a source for period shoes for a production that they’ll be doing this spring. I explained that we are totally custom and that he’d need to provide me with actual foot outlines and measurements for us to [...]]]> I had an interesting call from a nice young man in the Yale University theater department. He needed a source for period shoes for a production that they’ll be doing this spring. I explained that we are totally custom and that he’d need to provide me with actual foot outlines and measurements for us to use to match the wearer with a properly sized last to build the shoes on. Our preferred way to work is to send his actors the shoes with no finish insole and no sole to try on before we finished them for wearing. That would give them the opportunity to make us aware of any problems so they could be corrected before the finish work was done. Lead time would be three to four weeks depending on the styles he picked plus shipping time for the fitting and delivery. If he has a time crunch, we will do them without the fitting, which means that he has to be dead on with all the specs.

It will be fun to have another play to do. We haven’t done a theater production since the Lord Of The Rings musical in Toronto and enjoyed the challenge.

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