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Before You Spend £200 on Boots A decent pair of boots is an investment. At the prices we sell — £170 to £750 — you are entitled to know exactly what you are paying for and how to choose the right pair. We have been selling boots from Camden Town since 1851, and the questions customers ask in the shop are almost always the same. This guide answers them. Construction:...

The Shoe That Keeps Coming Back The brothel creeper is the most unlikely shoe in British fashion history. It was designed for desert warfare, adopted by Teddy Boys, revived by punks, embraced by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, worn on the runway by Comme des Garçons, and today sits in the permanent collections of fashion museums. And for most of that journey, one factory has been making it: George Cox...

Three Words That Change Everything "Made in England" used to be unremarkable. It was simply where things were made. Boots, shoes, tools, textiles — they came from British factories because that is where the factories were. Nobody put it on a label because nobody needed to. Then manufacturing left. The factories closed, the skills dispersed, and production moved to Asia. What remained was a handful of stubborn makers — mostly...