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Financial Modeling for Your New Shoe Company

Financial Modeling For your Shoe Company: Before you send any orders to the shoe factory you need to build your financial models. Financial modeling and cost accounting are important calculations to show if you will make any money! This may sound complicated, but once you have a basic understanding it’s […]

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Planning Your Shoe Manufacturing Business

When to launch your shoes into the market All your work getting your shoes designed and built is at risk if your market timing is wrong. You need to make sure your winter boots arrive in time for the winter selling season. Make sure to […]

Creating Your Footwear Company

Creating Your Shoe Company

When should you legally create your company? You need to be legally creating your shoe company at the time when you hire people to provide services and start spending money. Up until this point your shoe brand is just an idea on paper. While it may […]

How Shoes are Made: 2020 Update

How Shoes are Made Books Originally published in June of 2014, How Shoes are Made, has been continuously corrected, updated, and modified.  With feedback from our readers, reviewers, editors, and friends, we have worked to make this newly updated edition more useful, interesting, and concise. We have made […]

Custom Shoe Show Room

Italian Quality Handmade Shoes in China

Italian High Quality Shoes Handmade in China Can high quality handcrafted shoes be made in China? Yes! The modern shoemaking trades have been thriving in China for more than 30 years. Shoemaking  is a mature industry in China and there are thousands of skilled shoemakers with […]

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See inside a Designer Handbag Factory

Handbag Factory Tour On a recent factory tour in China I was invited to visit a friend’s designer handbag factory.  Since I was formerly bag designer, I was  especially excited to have a look inside to see what was going on. The purse factory we toured was making medium […]

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How Designer Handbags are Made

How Designer Handbags are Made As a shoe designer you may be called upon to work on many different soft goods projects.  My design career started with bag design, moved on to footwear design, and now I work in both fields every day. You will find that […]

Handmade Shoes for Men

Handmade Shoes for Men

Handmade Shoes for Men Book Review Handmade Shoes for Men by Laszlo Vass & Magda Molnar Hard Cover: 216 Pages Published 2015 What Amazon says: Handmade Shoes for Men elucidates the entire process of creating classic men’s shoes, while the detailed color photographs document every stage of […]