Alan James Raddon - Shoemaker

                                  Your unique footprints
                 embed deeply into the thick soft flexible soles.
      In Traditional High Quality Handmade Shoes, the soles are made from Ordinary Leather tanned in Oak Bark. I do not like it; it is too hard.
     The leather I use for the soles of my Shandals®, Shoes and Rope
Soled Slippers was not designed for Shoemaking at all.
     I use very special leather tanned specifically for the high specifications
of Hydraulic Engineering to create oil seals under high pressure and heat.
     It is unusually thick, flexible, and soft.
     In my classic Original design I use not one, but two layers in the soles.
I protect them from wear with thin, flexible, very hard wearing rubber compound soles and heels.
     Because the leather soles are soft and thick, your unique footprints embed into the double layer of soft supple leather.
     They become the Mirror Image of your Soles, a Symbiotic Sculpture
of your feet, incredibly comfortable and flexible - a real pleasure to walk in and fabulous to dance in.
     Another kind of sole I have recently introduced is a sole that has more grip than the Topy soles. I call them Dinky Tyre Soles. I use one layer of leather as two layers starts to make them a little heavy.
     I like both kinds of soles.
     I like the single leather soles for my Shandals with the Dinky Tyre soles as they are lighter and more flexible.
     And prefer the thicker double soles protected with Topy soles and heels for my shoes.