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Parte superior: têxtil · Forro e palmilha: têxtil · Sola: outros materiais
Upper: textile · Lining and insock: textile · Outsole: other materials
D-01 — Line D — vulcanised
Canvas Vulcanised
The cheapest thing we make and the one whose label is honest in the simplest way: têxtil, têxtil, outros materiais.
$78USD, one-off purchase
Material label — Directive 94/11/EC
| Componente | Material |
|---|---|
| parte superiorupper | têxtiltextile10 oz cotton canvas |
| forro e palmilhalining and insock | têxtiltextileUnbleached cotton drill lining, cotton-faced foam insock |
| solaoutsole | outros materiaisother materialsVulcanised natural rubber, cured onto the upper |
Declared class is the material making up at least 80% of that component. What each class covers
Cannot be re-soled
The rubber sole is cured onto the upper under heat. The join is permanent: removing the sole destroys the bottom of the upper. When the tread is worn through, the pair has reached the end of its life. What that means for the guarantee
Three things this pair will do
- Yellowing amarelecimento
- White and undyed cotton yellow faster than leather does, and washing with anything containing bleach or optical brightener drives the yellowing rather than fixing it. Sunlight and heat both accelerate it. Drying in the shade, slowly, is the single thing that helps most.
- Creasing vincos
- Canvas and mesh crease and crumple across the forefoot from the first wear. On textile the folds are softer than on leather but more numerous, and the fabric will not return flat. This is normal wear, not a fault.
- Cleaning limits limites de limpeza
- Mud, dust and most water-based marks come out of the weave with cool water and a soft brush. Oil, grease, ink and dye transfer settle between the yarns and are usually permanent. These shoes must not go in a washing machine: the heat and the drum separate the sole from the upper.
Adding does not open the cart. The count in the header goes up by one.
- Free standard shipping over $129. Below that it is $12. Delivery windows
- 14 days to withdraw without giving a reason. Try them indoors on carpet. Livre resolução
- 3-year legal guarantee of conformity under Portuguese law. Garantia
- Livro de Reclamações Eletrónico
Specification
Everything we measured.
Figures are taken from a size EU 42 unless a range is given, and they are the same figures we hold in production.
Build
- 01
- 10 oz cotton canvas, vulcanised sole, foxing tape around the join.
- 02
- No leather anywhere on the shoe, including the insock facing.
- 03
- Canvas takes water straight through. It also dries out in an afternoon.
Dimensions
- Sole thickness, forefoot
- 16 mm
- Sole thickness, heel
- 20 mm
- Last
- Standard
- Forefoot width, EU 42
- 98 mm
- Construction
- vulcanised
- Re-soleable
- No — the join is permanent
- Country of manufacture
- Country of manufacture is printed on the box and on the sewn-in label inside each pair.
Chemical compliance
- Chromium VI in leather
- ≤ 3 mg/kg
- Azo dyes
- Within REACH Annex XVII limits
- Nickel release, metal eyelets
- Within REACH Annex XVII limits
Measured size table
| EU | Foot length | Forefoot width |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | 22.7 cm | 88.4 mm |
| 37 | 23.4 cm | 90.0 mm |
| 38 | 24.0 cm | 91.6 mm |
| 39 | 24.7 cm | 93.2 mm |
| 40 | 25.3 cm | 94.8 mm |
| 41 | 26.0 cm | 96.4 mm |
| 42 | 26.7 cm | 98.0 mm |
| 43 | 27.3 cm | 99.6 mm |
| 44 | 28.0 cm | 101.2 mm |
| 45 | 28.7 cm | 102.8 mm |
| 46 | 29.3 cm | 104.4 mm |
Standard last. If this measures narrow for you, the wide-fit models add about 7 mm across the ball.
How this pair is cleaned, and what will not come out.
Cotton canvas and woven textile
- 01Remove the laces and the insock and wash both separately by hand.
- 02Brush dry dirt out of the weave with a medium brush.
- 03Work cool water and a little neutral detergent into the fabric with a soft brush, in small circles.
- 04Rinse by wiping with a clean damp cloth several times. Do not hold the shoe under a tap.
- 05Stuff with white paper — coloured paper transfers dye into wet canvas — and dry in the shade for a full day.
Comes out
- Mud and dust
- Most water-based food and drink marks caught early
- Grass marks, partially
- Surface grime across the whole upper, which lifts evenly if you treat the whole panel
Stays
- Oil and grease, which sit between the yarns rather than on them
- Ink and dye transfer
- Yellowing of undyed cotton, which bleach makes worse rather than better
- Stretch: canvas that has given does not come back
- Never put these in a washing machine or a tumble dryer. Heat and the drum separate the sole from the upper.
- Never use bleach or a brightener on undyed cotton.
- Never dry them in direct sun, which drives yellowing.
Rubber midsole and outsole
- 01Work a stiff short-bristle brush with foam cleaner along the midsole, not across it.
- 02Run the brush into the join between sole and upper, where the grey collects first.
- 03Wipe the foam off before it dries, or it leaves a tidemark of its own.
- 04For the tread, a brush and plain water is enough. Do not soak the shoe to clean the bottom of it.
Comes out
- Grey street film, which is most of what makes a white midsole look old
- Scuffs from kerbs, mostly
- Marks at the join between sole and upper
Stays
- Yellowing of the rubber itself, which is oxidation through the material rather than dirt on it
- Cuts and gouges in the rubber
- Tar
- Never use acetone or a solvent on rubber: it softens the compound and it attacks the cement at the join.
- Never soak a shoe to clean its sole.
- Never use a whitening product that relies on bleach. It sets the yellow rather than lifting it.
Why the sole is permanent.
A stitched joint can be unpicked and re-made. A bonded one cannot. Both of the constructions we use are bonded, and that is a property of this kind of shoe rather than a shortcut in ours.
What this material actually needs
Matched to the label above rather than to whatever we would like to shift.
Not footwear — composition listed
F-01 · White
Three pairs of flat cotton laces, 120 cm, the same ones fitted to every low-top here.
Not footwear — composition listed
Insole Pair
$26
F-04 · Natural
A replacement pair of leather-topped insocks. They are a consumable: the insock in a shoe you wear daily is finished long before the shoe is.