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What are custom size shoes, exactly?
Custom size shoes are built to the exact dimensions of your own feet instead of a standard size chart. At cobbler.fit you scan your feet with your phone, and we hand-build a pair around that precise 3D shape, including the difference between your left and right foot, which no off-the-shelf size accounts for.
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How can it fit without a fitting?
Because the shape comes first. Every pair is anatomical, cut to the actual outline of your foot rather than to a tapered fashion last, so the toe box follows your toes and the waist follows your arch. Two photos give us length, width, girth, instep height and heel volume for each foot, and a last is carved to those numbers alone.
Anatomical fit
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Take measurements
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How does the foot scan work?
You take two photos of your feet using the guided scanner in your browser or phone. That becomes a precise 3D model of your foot shape, which we use as the template for cutting and building your shoes. No in-person fitting, no size chart.
Take measurements
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What does bespoke mean here?
Bespoke means made specifically for you, from scratch, rather than adjusted from an existing size. Every cobbler.fit pair starts from two photos of your feet and is hand-cut and assembled to order by skilled shoemakers in Portugal, so no two pairs are identical.
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What if shoes never fit you?
Wide, narrow, asymmetric, bunions, high instep, orthotics. The specific cases where a stock last fails, what changes when the last is built from your own geometry, and where we are honest that you need a clinician rather than a cobbler.
Read the cases
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What is actually in the shoe?
A board lasted sneaker with a natural cork bed, a Vibram outsole cut by hand to your own outline, and vegetable tanned leather above it. Leather grades explained, construction explained, and a clear read on which engineered materials earn their place.
The material guide
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Where are they made?
In Portugal, across a network of small, family-owned workshops with generations of shoemaking experience, rather than a factory production line. Every pair is handmade to order from your foot scan.
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What does custom ask of you?
Patience, mostly. One to two months while a pair is cut and built by hand for one person. Here is the full comparison against a good retail shoe, stage by stage, so you know exactly what you are waiting for. Launch dates. We're just starting out and building in small batches, so for now we work to fixed dates. Order before November 15 to get your pair before the holidays. Order before December 10 to get your pair around February. Stay tuned for the next delivery dates.
The comparison
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And if it still isn't right?
Every pair starts with a fitting test, so we can check the fit before your shoe is made. If it still doesn't fit, tell us where and we'll make one more pair at our cost, within sixty days. No argument.
The fit guarantee
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