Shoes

Five shapes. No heel above six centimetres anywhere on the floor, and two of them we will not sell you without measuring your feet.

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We spent 2016 trying to be a shop with a shoe wall and it took eighteen months to admit we were bad at it. What we have now is the opposite of a wall: five shapes, two makers, and a rule that nothing goes on the floor unless one of us has walked in it for a full day on Athenian pavement, which is a harder test than it sounds.

Everything is unlined or lined in leather. Nothing has a synthetic sock, because a synthetic sock is how a €300 shoe becomes unwearable in July, and this city has four months of July.

The five

The flat sandal

Unlined leather, two colours, comfortable on marble. In the resort edit and on the floor from April to September. The best-selling single item in the building.

The block heel

Under 6cm, and walked on gravel in Sifnos by a customer who reported back. It is the only shoe in the wedding guest edit.

The loafer

Italian, unlined, and cut wide enough at the joint that it does not need breaking in. Two colours and one of them is not brown.

The Kyoto shoe, two shapes

Sized in a system that agrees with nothing else in the shop. Measured in person only — we will not ship them, and that loses us the sale about half the time.

A boot, three months a year

On the floor from November to January. Athens does not need more boot than this and everybody who has argued has come back and agreed.

Sizing, honestly


Italian shoes	Run true to the marked size, wide at the joint. If you are between sizes, take the smaller.
The Kyoto shoes	Do not map to European sizing at all. In person only, measured on both feet, which are never the same.
Widths	We do not stock multiple widths. What we do instead is tell you which of the five shapes suits a wide foot, and two of them genuinely do not.
Returns	Thirty days, unworn outdoors. Try them on carpet at home for as long as you like.
Repairs	Resoling by a cobbler on Ippokratous we have used for nine years. We arrange it, he charges you directly, we take nothing.