GRENSON SHOEMAKERS FOR 150 YEARS

One of the English sayings is "Don’t throw old shoes away before you have new ones" Nothing is more correct than this, but with an offer like Grenson has for this Fall/Winter 2016 it won't hurt your feelings to get rid of your old Broque's. 

In 1866, William Green begins making shoes in the loft above the Corn Merchants in Rushden, Northamptonshire. At this time shoemaking was done by hand in the houses of outworkers and William would hand out the work by visiting them individually on a daily basis.

As his business grew, he needed to increase production, and machinery had just been introduced so he moved in 1874 into his first "factory" at Green Yard. This was one of the first factories in the World to use the Goodyear Welted method of shoemaking.

The business had grown enough to require bigger premises and their success was such that they could afford to build a state of the art new factory at the corner of Queen Street and Cromwell road. This is the factory that they left in 2013 to move to the current factory.

GRENSON X NEW BALANCE COLLAB

New Balance X Grenson

In 2010 an idea was born.

Imagine a true collaboration where two factories actually came together to manufacture one shoe.

Then, just to make it a bit more difficult, imagine if one factory was a traditional English benchmade factory and the other was a sneaker factory, and imagine if they were at opposite sides of the country

Five years later they created a shoe that has been partly made in the Grenson factory in Northamptonshire, and partly made at the New Balance factory in Flimby.

It’s a limited edition of only 800 pairs, and for 399,95 euro's they are yours.

ONE SHOE. TWO FACTORIES.

SHOW ME YOUR GOODIES....

Sperry X Band of Outsiders

Barena

Church

Yuketen

Hackett

Mark McNairy

Oxxford

Barbour

Grenson

Grevi

After seeing all those pictures of men looking like "peacocks" the last days, you almost forget that the Pitti Uomo is a platform to show the new collections to the trade. Therefore here some pictures about products. Yes, also the products show a splash of color, so the "peacocks" are right! (pics via Mister Crew & Men's Reverie)