• High heel shoes: the new fashion faux pas

    This just in from the Wall Street Journal Fashion Section: high-heeled shoes appear to be very yesterday, and flats are in. According to the article published last week entitled, “Are High Heels Dead?”, there’s been a strong trend toward low flat shoes like sneakers and flats that may lead to a lasting change in women’s footwear. For […]

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  • Children in a Shoe Factory?

    When I started making shoes, a fellow physician friend of mine said, “Casey, knowing you, you’re going to hate those sweat shops and you’re going to want to do something about it.” Indeed, I did hate every shoe factory I visited (and believe me, I visited a lot of them). I didn’t need to be a […]

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  • Beating Knee Pain & Running Marathons

    Last year, when I started working at OESH, I sent my mom a pair of La Vidas from our first production run. She had always been an avid runner but a couple years ago she started getting bad knee pains which prevented her from running as much as she liked. I sent her that first pair […]

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  • Featured Speaker at the Maker Faire

    “A maker is a person or thing that makes or produces something.” Historically a maker does metalworking, woodworking, and/or traditional arts and crafts, but more recently the term “maker” has become synonymous with being engaged in engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3D manufacturing, and the use of CNC tools. Insofar as OESH, unlike any […]

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