puffdaddy
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I have ordered three bespoke shoes from two different makers and without the fitting stage, the shoes would have been unwearable.
In all three cases, the quarters/instep proved far too generous in the test stage.
If you don't have any foot problems nor want to tweak a design, consider yourself lucky. There are great MTO programs out there. However, with all due respect to some previous posters, I simply cannot see how a fitting can be avoided.
Maybe that is just my experience and the measurers and lastmakers I've dealt with have been somewhat deficient, but I doubt it.
I suppose the question is whether close enough is good enough. For 3K+ per pair I don't think so.
In all three cases, the quarters/instep proved far too generous in the test stage.
If you don't have any foot problems nor want to tweak a design, consider yourself lucky. There are great MTO programs out there. However, with all due respect to some previous posters, I simply cannot see how a fitting can be avoided.
Maybe that is just my experience and the measurers and lastmakers I've dealt with have been somewhat deficient, but I doubt it.
I suppose the question is whether close enough is good enough. For 3K+ per pair I don't think so.