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If you are interested to see what leathers and materials are available for you to customise a pair of shoes in, just visit one of our stores. 

For a limited time, we are not charging any extra for customisation.

Village News Socials

These socials snaps were taken at the Vein Wear Bespoke Shoes and Ray-Ban Rare party.

Sunday Mail Socials

Pictures from the Vein Wear Bespoke Shoes & Ray-Ban Rare Party.

Courier Mail - Men put best foot forward

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MEN are taking the reins on their fashion choices - customising clothing and shoes to suit their every whim.

No longer the sole prerogative of the fairer sex, men's fashion and accessories are being offered up with an array of personalising options from colours to cut.

Peter Crawfurd, co-founder of online custom shirt store ShirtsMyWay.com there was a growing desire among men to have more input into their sartorial choices.

``We believe in individuality by letting men design their own shirts in true detail and getting shirts that are sized personally for them,'' he said.

Customers can choose their fabrics, buttons and shapes down to the collar and cuffs, as well as enter their measurements for shirts to be made to.

``The other point is that many men are picky with their dress shirts. They like certain collars or certain cuffs and want these for their shirts,'' Mr Crawfurd said.

``With the many design options we offer they can make these choices and get exactly what they want.''

Brisbane shoe label Vein Wear designer Chris McCallum recently launched a custom-design men's shoe service he said was in response to a growing demand from men to personalise their accessories.

``From a commercial point of view, what stores decide to invest in has to be quite conservative but it means that pretty much everyone doesn't get what they really want. It just gets boring,'' he said.

By choosing their own leathers, eyelet colours, laces and the most minute details on style, men can create their dream shoe with a three week turnaround, he said.

``We were getting requests from people requesting what they wanted and we thought let's just do it.

``So far we've had people in two camps - one is people who want something that's just not in stock, be it a bit more room in the toe for example, but the other camp is the guys that just go nuts with animal print mixed with purple nubuck to make something we'd never find anywhere else.''

``It's extremely exciting and no one else can really do it.''

by Laura Stead 

Check some bespoke shoes made this month on Facebook.

Is Brisbane the new shopping capital of the world?

London has beaten Tokyo, New York, Paris and Brisbane to be crowned the shopping capital of the world.

So far Brisbane's efforts to emulate London by constructing its own "Brisbane" Eye, and crowning itself "Australia's New World City" are yet to see us to the top of the list. Oh well, at least they are trying.

A study by Britain's Centre for Retail Research says London is the top city for both store and online shopping, generating STG64.2 billion ($A102.93 billion) of non-food retail sales last year. Tokyo came in second with sales of STG61.4 billion ($A98.44 billion), followed by New York with STG47 billion ($A75.36 billion) and Paris with STG46.6 billion ($A74.72 billion).

The study, commissioned by shopping comparison website Kelkoo, covered 22 major worldwide shopping destinations.

Kelkoo marketing director Chris Simpson said the key to London's success appears to be the quality and quantity of shops on offer, combined with the revenue generated by the huge volume of tourists that passes through the UK capital each year.

Article Source: http://www.insideretailing.com.au/Latest/tabid/53/ID/10116/Shopping-captial-of-the-world-named.aspx

Image Source: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk

Vein Wear Set - 20110211

Vein Wear Set - 20110211 by chrismccallum on Polyvore.com

Defining smart casual is this set featuring handmade bespoke leather boots in a cool grey leather. In real life the leather has a great blue tinge to it.

That will go great with the shirt. Black jeans give a more formal look but have that functionality that you love from denim.

Please upload your own Vein Wear shoes fashion sets to http://www.facebook.com/VeinWear

Winner of the $1,000 Matt Stewart Art Prize Is...

On the night of the Ray-Ban Rare - Vein Wear Bespoke Shoes Party, everyone that customised a pair of shoes went into the draw to win $1,000 worth of commissioned art from Matt Stewart (website here).

Watch the video to see who the lucky winner is. If it's you, please come into the Vein Bespoke Shoe Store in the Valley to claim.

Congratulations...

Vein Bespoke Shoes Launch

Back to Business After the Floods

Social Pictures from the Ray-Ban Rare Party

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287308&l=f391bb4867&id=45156493360


See the pics at the link above. Tag yourself if you are in there. And please upload your own photos to http://www.facebook.com/VeinWear.

Bride To Be Magazine Featuring Vein Wear Mens Shoes

Get these shoes online ($249.00) at VeinWear.com or come into a Vein Shoe Store to customise them in over 70 leathers.

And the top 3 finalists in the Vein Wear Shoe Design Competition are...

The votes have been collated and we are excited to announce the three finalists of the 2011 Vein Wear Footwear Competition (in no particular order):

Ivan Bilugan (Philippines) - Retro Avant-Garde loafer
Jesse Bibbs (USA) - Aero boot
John Yang (Taiwan) - Indus boot

Congratulations to our three finalists and all the talented entrants. The standard was once again very high and this was reflected in the closeness of the votes.

Ivan, Jesse and John's entries will now be sent on to our prestigious juding panel, with the ultimate winner announced March 3. 

Stay tuned...

Trevor's Bespoke Vein Wear Shoes

These are the latest Vein Wear customised shoes by Trevor ($249). The light blue reptile and blue nubuck are striking. Well done Trevor.

Anyone can customise their own pair of Vein Wear bespoke shoes in either of the Brisbane Vein Shoe Stores. It only takes 3 weeks for our expert cobblers to hand-make your creation.