Best CrossFit Shoe
We are excited to announce that the OESH La Vida’s are not only a great all-around shoe but are highly touted as the perfect shoes for CrossFit! Phyllis Dockeray, an experienced CrossFit OESHer and founder of Nationwide Machinery, sums it up: “They are perfect for all the deadlifts, snatches, and other exercises where we tend [...] Continue Reading3D CAD Is Everything!
For years, shoe companies have been designing their shoes in just two dimensional (2-D) views and then relying upon manufacturers, who are often overseas, to interpret those two dimensional designs and then re-create them into three-dimensional products. As we understand it, most shoe companies still design in 2-D, perhaps out of tradition, but here at […]
Continue ReadingMost Running Shoes Are Actually High-Heeled!
Being a new employee here at OESH, I was skeptical to hear that many existing athletic shoes are designed all wrong. As a recent Industrial Design graduate from James Madison University and being involved with sports my whole life (shoutout to the 2013 WCLA D2 National Champions aka JMU Women’s Club Lacrosse), I had never […]
Continue ReadingOESHer of the Week 10/17: Jean Lanham!
This week’s featured OESHer, Jean Lanham, started accruing OESHer street cred back in 2011, when she sent us the following glowing testimony (which you may have seen in that August’s OESH email newsletter): It’s me again. I ordered size 8 Classic and I have not taken them off except for sleep. I love them that […]
Continue ReadingMeet the Machines: An OESH Field Guide
I may be seriously overestimating OESHers’ interest in our shoemaking machinery, but that has not deterred Zoe (Bob and Casey’s youngest daughter) and me from walking around the factory naming all of the machines – or broadcasting our extraordinary creativity here on the OESH blog. So here, meet our newly-personified friends: This is Jerry, the […]
Continue ReadingOESHer of the Week 8/16: Grace Lefebure!
Our OESHer of the Week this morrow, Grace Lefebure, was a star student in last year’s “OESH / University of Virginia Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Senior Design Course” where, for her senior thesis, she helped design and implement tools and processes to streamline manufacturing at OESH. As the only woman in the group, she’s easy to spot in […]
Continue ReadingOESHer of the Week 7/26: Anne Newman!
This week’s featured OESHer, Anne Newman, came into the factory on Monday to show us the pair of black Classics she had bought last August (that’s her husband, James, in the background): We were a little shocked to see how wrecked Anne’s OESH were until she mentioned casually that she had put “about a thousand […]
Continue ReadingNew Contest: OESHer of the Week!
We do make some pretty fantastic shoes here at OESH, but lately we’ve been wanting to find out more about the fantastic people wearing them. OESHers, as Bob told me to call them, email us and come into the factory all the time with stories to tell, and we think they deserve telling. Specifically, we […]
Continue ReadingMy Summer as a Cobbler
Some may not consider the life of a cobbler to be so illustrious, but unless you make your living writing for Portlandia or tracking down colossal squid, I can assure you that my job is much more fun than yours. Because I basically get to do arts and crafts all day, with the added bonus […]
Continue ReadingThings You Shouldn’t Run With
Scissors Knitting needles Hot coffee Your infant Great-grandmother’s blue vase Broken glass A vial of smallpox virus 3 Mako sharks Mud The neighborhood symphony orchestra Processed cheese Homemade cheese Shredded cheese The Boxcar Children Your replica Civil War-era musket A broken leg Kerosene A feral wolverine Someone else’s infant A hot casserole Paint Both of […]
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