Picture: Bespoke shoes made on-site in Vienna.
While
I am still waiting for my bespoke Balint shoes (I ordered them in
January) I happened on another bespoke shoe maker in Vienna. Rudolf
Scheer & Söhne in Vienna belongs, together with John Lobb in
St.James in London, to the top bespoke shoe makers in Europe. It used
to make shoes for the Austrian royals and it was founded in 1816. R.
Scheer for example made shoes for the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph
1. The venerable company looks back on almost 200 years of
shoemaking-tradition. In contrast to Balint, who produces in Romania,
all shoes are made on location in central Vienna. Young Markus Scheer
of the owner family (7th generation) takes normally three
measurements of your feet in six months time and he also makes the
rough first cut of the last. The shoe is then assembled from over 200
parts. THe shoes are made completely by hand with only very few
machinery involved. The result is not only stunning but also unique
and highly comfortable to wear shoes. A shoe will set you back at
least €3000 and it comes with free shoe cleaning service and a
cleaning set.
At 3k Euro that is a joke, I got a pair of full brogues made by hand on my last which was made for free for 350.00 Euros - ordered them on-line - the quality is excellent and the fit perfect, actually better than the 2k bespoke ones I bought from a cobbler in London .. here I didn't have to go 4 times to a shop but they send me a "form-kit" - some kind of bandage you wrap around your feet - they harden quickly and you send them back to Germany .. www.adlershoes.com is their on-line shop .. 3k for a pair of shoes tz tz tz
Posted by: H. Moll | April 15, 2011 at 06:04 AM