The House
A shoe should
not need to
announce itself.
Origin
Boggyland began the summer we stopped buying new shoes.
We had drawers full of pairs that had never softened, never marked, never fit the way the best shoe you own fits. We wanted the opposite of that — shoes that took time to make and gave time back.
We spent a year visiting the small workshops still cutting and stitching by hand — in Porto, in Northampton, in the Marche. We came home with a short list of makers and a shorter list of shoes we wanted to build with them.
Boggyland is what we made. Four shoes to start. No seasons. No accent colours. No logo on the outside.
Process
01 — Materials
Vegetable-tanned Italian and Portuguese leathers, natural rubber, waxed cotton. Nothing that will crack in the sun or peel off a sole.
02 — Lasting
Every pair is lasted by hand over three to four days. The last is our own — narrow at the waist, generous at the toe.
03 — Stitching
Blake or Goodyear, depending on the shoe. Always so it can be resoled.
04 — Finishing
Edges burnished by hand. Interior unlined where the leather can bear it — so it wears in against your foot within a week.
A note
"We would rather make one honest pair than ten forgettable ones."
— The founders, Boggyland