Next Saturday September 28th we will be in Estació del Nord in Barcelona due to the 1st Steampunk Fair of Barcelona, that takes place inside of the European event EuroSteamCon 2013.

If you want to meet us, we will welcome you in the M18 stand with our best outfits to talk about handmade artisan shoes and have a great day learning Victorian dances, listening about parapsychology in the XIXth century, having an afternoon tea or enjoying a hat contest (among many other scheduled activities!)

You can't miss it!

We are proud to share with you the 2012 Annual Report of The Fancy Puffin.

Enjoy it! :)

Once upon a time we had a question: what about vegan shoes? People who don't want to eat meat, should not wear leather. But what do they put on their shoes? After all, it's not only the leather: contact glue also comes from animals.

Searching and searching we found Green Shoes in England, a lovely shoemaking shop... Which had vegan shoes and courses on shoemaking. We could not let this opportunity pass to learn new methods and how to work new materials. Meeting shoemakers abroad was also thrilling.

A few weeks ago we got a special request: the mother of a 12 year old girl, prescribed with orthopedic insoles asked us to make a pair of summer sandals.

A true challenge. Sandals are an open shoe, and it is almost impossible to buy one that can hide an insole while preventing it from escaping through the tip or the heel. After thinking for a while and making all the required measurements, not only of the feet but also of the insoles that should be hid, we designed this model.

The final result is a shoe, an open and ventilated sandal, keeping fresh feet all summer long, but with a fancy tip and heel to keep the insoles from escaping. The insoles are also invisible from the sides, since they have a reinforced leather side around the soles.

Even if making orthopedic shoes is not our goal, we are very happy with the result of the "Pretty & Healthy"... a name we think is true to form.

Are you also forced to wear orthopedic insoles and summer feels like hell? Contact us and we'll think what we can do!

We have available in our online store these wonderful espardiles, for a lucky person with a 40 (European) feet.

We have nicknamed them Cherry Blossom because the fabric motive reminds us of the freshness of fields filled with cherry trees starting to bloom, and the leather strips are cherry red.

The fabric of these espardiles is 100% coton with a satin finish, giving a bright outlook to this Japanese  pattern.

The strips holding the cloth to the toecap and the ankle are leather, with a width of 1cm.

The espardile ties around the ankle with a cloth strip with the same pattern as the toecap. The length of this strip is 48 cm.

The heel, of type topolino is 7cm high. It is covered by vegetable fibers and the sole is made with crepeline, perfecly anti-slip. The insole is made with authentic cow leather, dyed in brown.

You can see more pictures of these espardiles in our Etsy shop and our picture album.

If you have any question about our Cherry Blossom espardiles, or you'd like to have your own pair in a different size, don't hesitate and contact us.

You can buy these espardiles on our Etsy shop!