Last of this series…bow fell off.
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OESH Sells Out of Lizard Shoes
One hates to disrupt the beautiful post describing the meeting of Yellowstone & La Vida, but duty calls. We are now holding only two sizes of the original Classic and Lizard shoes in our inventory, the Lizard 8 and Lizard 9.5. Thankfully, the response to the La Vida has been unprecedented for us. Business, you […]
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OESH La Vida in Yellowstone National Park
Every year, a few friends and friends of friends from college (University of Chicago), and our families meet up some place fun. Last year we went to the beach (Bald Head Island in North Carolina) where I tested a prototype pair of our OESH athletic sandals. They were so great that they ended up being the […]
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Most 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 […]
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OESH La Vida: Essential Shoes for the Zombie Apocalypse
The conversation started over the Jerusalem Artichoke, a perennial vegetable with bulbous roots tasting like a cross between a potato and an artichoke. A wonderful OESHer friend gave me some of her roots last year which I planted, and this year, I gave some of the roots to another OESHer and long-time friend (who is […]
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OESH Sells Out! Twice! Lizard 8.5s & 9s join Lizard 7s, 10s, and 11s as official Collector’s Items
In central Virginia at this time of the year, we see plenty of lizards scurrying about. And it certainly defines the way our business demand is flowing–the movement of Lizards, that is. With a one-two punch, we recently saw the final pairs of our Lizard 8.5s and 9s go onto the feet of some very […]
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Squash and OESH’s La Vida: SQOESH Shoes?
This summer, our daughters and I have been playing squash. Of course we’ve all been running too (lifelong commitment / cross-country workouts for the girls) but the idea of throwing squash into the mix came to us when the University of Virginia invested $12.4 million on a new indoor squash court facility that is practically […]
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