Bespoke (custom made) shoes used to be only accessible to the very rich, not surprising with a usual price of £ 1,600.00 to well above £ 2,000.00 .... however we said "used to be" since this situation has now changed.
Bespoke shoes - handmade to your personal measurements - for only £ 178.00 by Tower Bridge Shoes, a Wiltshire based company that has today, after 4 years in the business, a regular customer base of over 3,000 and the best part is, you can order your shoes on-line in their very well set up online shop
(PRWEB) March 22, 2004
J. Saunders of Tailored for you Ltd., the UK company behind the brand name Tower Bridge Shoes say's;
"we have many customers from within the UK, from Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy and from as far away as New Zealand..."
Tailored for you Ltd. has developed a special foam which is produced for them in Germany and which retains a perfect imprint of the customers feet, once he or she stepped into the foam. A few measurements with a tape measure and an even more accurate last can be produced than you would get by visiting any of the few bespoke shoemakers left.
The shoes produced are made 100% by hand and each shoes is made on your personal last. Tailored for you Ltd. does not charge for the last either. J. Saunders says;" our business policy is simple, we do not charge for the last because experience has shown that, once a new customer has received his first pair of our handmade, Goodyear welted, bespoke shoes, he/she will not revert back to "off the rack shoes", but in most cases imediately order a further 2-4 pairs..."
TFY is growing fast and with a capacity of 1,000 pairs of bespoke shoes per month (they have 60 cobblers working in their production) are already the largest bespoke shoemaker worldwide and are set for a very healthy future, since virtually 99% of people in the developed world have problems with their feet..
