Austro-Hungarian school of shoemaking - Page 3

Fritzl,
thank you for posting this survey over the Austrian-Hungarian school of shoe making. Very interesting!
I have not much experience of this school but I will learn more about the Goyserer welt technique this summer. Marcell will be the instructor for a seminar of this method in July in my shop.
My grandfather made many pair using a similar method (called pitch seamed in Swedish) 1925-1945 for farmers. No fancy shoes but heavy boots.
Thanks for sharing,
Janne

i dont think so, i like them for what they are! can't sleep with super modals all the time!

Interesting shoes. Some I like and some I do not, but the ones in this post are just awesome.

Thanks for the pics.

I can really see the Eastern European aesthetic with the connotations implied by it.

Extreme coolness IIT! Thanks fritzl for showing and your expertise; I like especially that speckled Norwegian one in e.g. post #10...as the Austro-Hungarian style as a whole.

p.s./edit: I know its not the same (high) "category" but I just bought a pair of shoes by Laszlo Sacher, today. Yet they come from that tradition as well...
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=3031
Still you made me curious about the Maftei ones too and I'll probably check out that shop too. J.

Interesting, fritzl. Thanks for posting them. It probably won't surprise you that I like these, well worn and somewhat conventional, best of the lot.

What size shoe do you wear, if I may ask?

I try to do, what I can (My English is poor, so it will be a good game to find out, what I wanted to say.. sorry for that) If someone correct it and send me a PM with the text I promise to replace it.. Until you have to deal with it.

The article:
http://www.kisalfold.hu/gyori_hirek/...ipesz/2041213/

And my translation:

"what a carrier! - we could say if a craftsman could get a university degree and became a research-engineer.. But in this case the opposite happened. Istvan Feher did that - maybe he is the only one with it.

The elder Feher got his master degree for 80 years as a bootmaker. He had 5-6 employee in his shop at Szechenyi ter. They produces shoes (every step of it, from lastmaking to finish) and sold it in the weekends. Many people of the family became bootmaker - just like his younger brother, who is 91 yrs old, and lives in Pannonhalma. Istvan started to learn at Bercsenyi Primary School then went to gymnasium, then finally went to Veszprem University "petrol-chemistry". He started to work, but one day went back to his father to learn shoemaking.

- why did you choose this? - we asked.

(explanation about the economical situation of Hungary that time...)

- Because of money.. - he makes shoes for 25 years and happy with it. He was familiar with the basics, so it wasn't so hard to learn. He and his father could work together 4-5 years before he passed. He doesn't accept new shoe orders anymore - even if someone would pay for it. He made shoe for Javor Pal (very famous Hungarian actor, died in 1959 - see picture)



None of Istvan's children learnt the craft.

- do your customer knows, that you are an engineer?
- maybe at the beginning they did."

Thats it. I hope you can understand.

you are welcome!

Thanks. I would have guessed smaller.

I'm not that surprised. Most people don't come around here to tear other people down just for having different tastes, even if sometimes it can feel like it to some.

Some shoe modell from 1959. Budapest last-form was very common at that time.

Thank you for posting... I think this is where most of the 'learning' can take place.

Not be to rude at all, but I couldn't see myself wearing any of these shoes. Very full, thick and old looking.

Again, I appreciate the posting...please continue. thx.