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So proud. That’s my Jayme protesting for women’s rights with fellow Oxonians at Yarl’s Wood Detention Center in England.

Dr. Kerrigan is being honored by the Manufacturing Institute with a 2016 STEP Ahead award. The Manufacturing Institute launched the STEP Ahead initiative in 2012 to celebrate women in the manufacturing industry that are making a difference through advocacy, mentorship, engagement, promotion, and leadership. The STEP Ahead Awards highlight the achievements of real women in […]

PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT FORWARD FOR 2016- 10 SIMPLE THINGS | Natural Running Center To a Happy and Healthy New Year! Our friend, Mark Cucuzzella, over at Natural Running Center, offers 10 simple things that apply not just to runners, for a healthy 2016. Shop OESH for a great running shoe!

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

The OESH Factory is located in an industrial area of Charlottesville, Virginia. Unlike many cities that have substantial issues in managing heavy volumes of industrial waste, for the most part, Charlottesville’s urban economic area is vibrant without being overtly grimy. We’ve always felt fortunate to be embedded in our community as OESH grows–it’s great to […]

I received a unique invitation from Professor Richard Crawford to present the ongoing story of OESH Shoes to a group of second and third year law students this week at the powerful University of Virginia School of Law, in the course Finance of Small Enterprises – Law 7606 It was really fun! All 44 seats […]

Autodesk–the world’s leader in 3D Design, Engineering, Architectural, and Entertainment software–today published this wonderful article by Matt Alderton about OESH. This feature appears in the “Success Stories” tab of their Line//Shape//Space online magazine, entitled How to Become a Product Designer OESH has had several excellent articles written about our unique successes, but today’s  might be […]

Once in a while, a weather image nails the center of the bullseye. Going for a run this summer Virginia morning, with the temperature already pushing above 80, and pulling the newspaper out of the mailbox when I finished, on page A2 I saw this: This beautiful photograph (thank-you Bill Shrapnel/Colmar Estate and AP) from […]

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 […]