Hand-Lasted Shoe Sizing — Why Handmade Shoes Fit Better Than Mass-Produced

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About This Article — Hand-lasted shoes are built over a form that matches your foot's exact geometry.

Hand-lasted shoes are built over a form that matches your foot's exact geometry. Our master artisans explain why this produces a fundamentally different fit to machine production.

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A last is the three-dimensional form over which a shoe is built. Its shape determines every aspect of the finished shoe's fit — width, toe box volume, arch profile, heel cup depth. The difference between a hand-lasted and machine-lasted shoe is the difference between a shoe built for a human foot and one built for an average.

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