European shoes thread
A few brands
This Portuguese brand makes shoes in Portugal incorporating ocean plastic trash.
oooooh, I'm loving the idea!
NPS/Solovair - British leather (and some vegan) shoes and boots, including 'doc marten' style Derby boots (they used to manufacture 'Dr. Martens by Solovair' boots).
Not Ecco: they continue to do business in Russia. For my money and conscience, I’d buy American shoes before buying from them.
Updated the post
ECCo is indeed Danish but have gotten a lot of heat for not pulling out of Russia when they invated Ukraine
Sange goes for a few other Danish companies who contributed inue to do business with Russia, including Rockwool, and Novo Nordisk among others
My favourite shoes at the moment are ON cloudswift. Swiss brand, although the shoes aren't actually made there.
https://www.foempies.com/sustainability/handmade-since-1939-in-the-eu.html - Belgian, made in EU
Sievi - made in Finland, mainly safety/industrial shoes but they have "normal" shoes too
Astorflex. Made in Italy leather shoes with stitchdown construction.
https://www.vasky.cz/cs/ - Vasky from Czech Republic. Not sure if they ship outside of CZ yet.
Meindl and haix for hiking and work wear.
Freet Barefoot - barefoot style shoes made in the UK, often out of recycled material, and known to be quite durable for the money.
Very intresting, never heard of freet or barefoot shoes. Kinda reminds me of what I love so much about my knitted sneakers in the summer.