No. 1, the founding edition · Signed Heel
Sun
A sun on the outer heel. The front stays plain.
Priced at your fitting
Signed Heel. Made to order, three pairs across Moon and Sun
The second of the two Signed Heel figures. A sun with a face, drawn freehand on the outer heel counter in fine line, with the rays running into the grain. From the front the shoe is the plain pair. From behind it is signed.
Three of the thirty are Signed Heels, in either Moon or Sun, and they are painted only after your fitting.
One message with your city and we reply with two fitting slots. You hold the shoe before you decide, and nothing is charged online. Painted work is done after your fitting, so the painting is never lost to a remake. Ready 20 to 25 days from the day you order.
The shoe underneath
- Construction
- Hand-welted. The sole is stitched to a welt that is sewn to the insole by hand, eight to ten stitches to the inch, in waxed linen. Not glued, not Blake-stitched. A worn sole is cut off and a new one sewn on.
- Upper
- One panel of full-grain calf from collar to toe, 1.3 to 1.6 mm. No apron seam, no moc stitch, no seam across the top. Tanned in Pakistan.
- Colour
- Pale through the centre, honey at both ends. The toe and the heel are darkened by hand with a cloth, so no two pairs shade the same.
- Waist
- Bevelled under the arch: the sole is cut narrow by hand so the shoe shows a curved line along its side.
- Heel
- 22 mm, stacked from layers of leather and lacquered dark teal, with a dark replaceable top piece.
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