Embroidered slippers hit the national headlines this week, and it wasn't (sadly) the launch of our new website that had everybody talking. Winston Churchill's famous personalised embroidered slippers were sold at auction for just shy of £40,000. Churchill's heavily...
That’s right, we are renaming it, are you in? Our Black Patent Opera Pumps. The first Black Friday was dated 24th September 1869. Jim Fisk and Jay Gould’s plan of buying large sums of US gold, in the hope the price would soar, dramatically failed, leaving many...
AN ALTERNATIVE INDIAN GROOM SHOE It’s a funny quirk of nature, that in the bird kingdom it’s often the male of the species who gets to be the most colourful. Think of the peacock’s fan, the cockerel’s multicolours, the mallard’s iridescence. Yet when it comes to...
like the sound of rubber sole? If you’ve stumbled upon this dandy blog whilst searching the term ‘Rubber Sole’, there is a chance you’re a Beatles fan. There you were trying to track down one of the Beatles finest but oddest titled (excuse me – Rubber Sole?)...
In true English fashion, when it comes to blowing our own trumpets, Bowhill & Elliott are quite unaccustomed to it. We’re a modest bunch. We think 140 years of handmade shoes, pumps and slippers speaks for itself. Thrilled? Well it was the week of the Royal...
Slippers By Hand In this modern world of machine manufacturing, it’s comforting to know that handmade, bespoke shoes are having a bit of a renaissance. And it’s not just bespoke shoes that are trending; bespoke ladies slippers and bespoke mens slippers are the latest...
