One of the industries that is most associated with England is shoes. Northampton has been the centre of British shoe making for over 100 years and continues to define quality, durability, prestige and sophistication. Using time honoured practices that remain largely unchanged, the craftsmen and women in Northampton can be rightly proud at maintaining Britain at the heart of quality boot making against stiff competition from Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe and of course, the Far East.
Crockett & Jones is one such example. They have been making traditional English shoes since 1879. Each shoe goes through over 200 different highly skilled operations and takes 8 weeks to manufacture. Although a pair seems expensive, they will last far longer than cheaper shoes and they get more and more comfortable by the day.
The shoes come in a range of traditional styles that are rarely out of fashion. The best advice is to buy 2 pairs and rotate them so that each pair is only worn every other day. This allows the leather time to settle and dry after use ensuring that the leather remains in perfect condition. Rotating shoes is believed to almost triple the lifetime of the shoe and hence is a worthy investment.
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