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Gift cards are now available in our shop. The easiest way to give the gift of OESH this holiday season is with an OESH gift card.

The Elite Dress Shoe We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to produce a dress shoe that lives up to the OESH name. In full-grain black leather with a buttery smooth lining, the Elite features the same roomy fit and responsive sole you’ve come to love. Available now: http://oesh.myshopify.com/products/elite

This past week we were recognized by Autodesk in one of their fabrication blogs. Autodesk’s Reality Computing blog entitled Where Building Construction Meets Shoe Fabrication highlighted the recent collaboration between OESH and Melissa Goldman’s The World is Flat class at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture (previous post here). For those unfamiliar with Autodesk, they are a software company […]

A controversy surrounding high heel shoes has made its way into the media yet again.  Deemed “Shoegate” by some, multiple women were recently denied entry to a movie premier at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival for wearing flats. Though actors and actresses alike have made comments at the unjust nature of this incident, it has […]

Hello extended OESH family! My name is Sarah and I am the newest member of OESH. This past December I graduated with a Masters in Architecture from the University of Virginia and have been with OESH since. I’ve always been interested in making, and in the years between undergraduate (BS in Architecture, University of Illinois) and […]

This video highlights an exciting collaboration between OESH and the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. The World is Flat-3-D Printing Edition, a class offered at the Architecture School and headed by Melissa Goldman, is exploring new technology used in architectural fabrication. Mirroring the design processes used in architecture, this project has provided […]

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 […]

Who knew that making shoes would involve cutting so much metal? Recently, we cut all new slats for our Waterjet Saw. Slats are the long, sleek metal pieces that lay in the tank and hold the material about to be cut. I know, quite ironic that we cut slats on top of slats to make new slats. […]

Last weekend, we took a short family vacation to Washington, D.C. While the primary purpose for our trip was to visit Ellen, my mom’s best friend from Harvard Medical School, we also spent a substantial amount of time taking advantage of the glory that is the Smithsonian Institution. My personal favorite of the many museums on the D.C. Mall […]

OESHer of the Week is back: and, this time, for a very special installment. Charlottesville High School’s own Marissa Tierney is an OESHer, and quite possibly the best AP English Language teacher on the face of the planet.  But although she certainly deserves a page of her own, our focus today is on her eighteen-month-old […]