Making High Heels - Page 2

DandyDude · 16th March 2007, 22:46

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Originally Posted by Robert

Sometime ago I found a link to a German site on how to make wooden clogs.
Unfortunately it is in German, but you can translate it in English with Altavista Babelfish.
http://mitglied.lycos.de/stoeckel_fr...lph/index.html
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Good luck!

Robert

I recall a link on clog-making years ago and it was in German, but I don't think that is it. There is a thread on it from several years ago, perhaps it could be found and brought up.

euchrid · 16th March 2007, 23:21

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Originally Posted by Dr. Shoe

Making a shoe from a kit is different than making them from scratch.......

That's very informative Mr Cholmondley-Warner. And possibly the longest post ever posted on this forum, racking up a score of 1993 words (not including your follow-up).
If awards are given for such things, I heartily implore the forum moderators to give you one!

Firefox · 17th March 2007, 03:49

I've tried making shoes in a variety of ways and the only real wearable success I have had is making wedge heels from cutting out stacks of hardboard to shape, fixing them together and filing to shape. The uppers on a wedge are fairly simple to make compared to courts or boots.

HeelMeNow · 4th April 2007, 07:02

First post and I'm glad to be here. On the topic of making shoes, I have done these tasks with decent success: Took wood slides and removed upper. Then I replaced with electrical wire insulation (single lead household stuff 14 GA with strands pulled out --- provides PVC'ish tubing) attached to ring terminals then nailed into wood. Looks cool, gives rainbow effect if desired. Also used pour-foam once to make ~ 3" wedges. Trimmed stuff with coping saw and utility knife. Results were OK and "springy". Pour-foam got cotton rope for upper and ankle-ties. Hope this helps. Glad to pass on some tidbits.

agatka · 21st August 2007, 02:18

http://www.leicestercollege.ac.uk/co...007/08&type=ft
£310 for the year tuition 16 hour per week part time sept-june
or the creme de la creme of shoe design courses.....
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/course...s_footwear.htm
£3200 course fee for the year

Guy N. Heels · 21st August 2007, 03:28

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Originally Posted by Dr. Shoe

Note that you will not be able to buy 5" heels for love or money unless you have permission from one of the manufacturers, similarly lasts. Stock lasts and heels only go up to 4" or at most 4.5".

Lasts cost £60 per pair or thereabouts, heels are about 90p each in boxes of 250 (£225 per box per size), Insole boards will cost about £2.50p per pair but you will need to order a minimum of a 1000 pairs or pay for tooling costs.

Yes it's great to make your own shoes but expensive unless you intend to make a lot of them. To make one pair of shoes is going to cost you around £2800 assuming that you have a shoemaker's sewing machine as you can't use a normal flatbed.

Wasn't it Shakespear who wrote, "...conscience (and pocket books, too) doth make cowards of us all..."? Given all the effort and outlay required to make a pair of heels, a trip to high street to buy a pair of fashionable heels seems cheap!

Dr. Shoe · 21st August 2007, 10:11

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Originally Posted by agatka

http://www.leicestercollege.ac.uk/co...007/08&type=ft
£310 for the year tuition 16 hour per week part time sept-june
or the creme de la creme of shoe design courses.....
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/course...s_footwear.htm
£3200 course fee for the year

Yes, I studied at Cordwainers, though the course didn't cost me anything like that on the grounds that I went through before the tuition fees were introduced. I think you'll find that the actual tuition fees on the Cordwainers course will be the same as anywhere else and the price quoted includes the bit that your LEA will pay as a grant.

Guy N. Heels · 28th August 2007, 22:25

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Originally Posted by euchrid

That's very informative Mr Cholmondley-Warner. And possibly the longest post ever posted on this forum, racking up a score of 1993 words (not including your follow-up).
If awards are given for such things, I heartily implore the forum moderators to give you one!

Yep! It's a whopper, alright. I thought I had taken the prize with a post in the Is this true? thread. But a quick word count shows that mine was a paltry 1500 words or thereabouts. So all hail to Dr. Shoe, the Kolossass of the keyboard!