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About
TREAD makes one court shoe last in four colorways, plus the care to keep it.
The shoe we kept replacing
TREAD started in 2019 with one white court shoe, worn every day and replaced every year, because the leather cracked across the toe and the glued sole peeled away. So we took it to Portugal and had it made properly: full-grain leather that creases instead of cracking, a cork footbed, and a stitched cupsole a workshop can replace.
Made to be resoled
Every pair is cut and stitched in Portugal on one court last, from full-grain leather and a recycled rubber cupsole. When the sole wears through, send them back: our workshop fits a new one, and the upper you broke in keeps going.
How a pair is made
Four steps, one workshop in Portugal.
The last
Every shape is built on the same court last.
The leather
Full-grain, from gold-rated tanneries. It creases instead of cracking.
The cupsole
Recycled rubber, stitched on, so a workshop can replace it.
The resole
When the sole wears through, we fit a new one and post the pair back.
A fresh pair of laces
One last, four shapes
From the journal
We put a booth in the shop for a weekend. Four frames, a shoe in most of them, nobody standing still.
Two minutes a week and three tools. The routine that keeps full-grain leather creasing instead of cracking.
Plain court shoes all look alike from a distance. The differences that matter are easy to check once you know the questions to ask.