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FAQ: UK vegan cruelty-free shoes clothing footwear boots belts and jackets
vegan
materials
cobblers
jackets
hemp
discussion
vegan
recipes
shops
links
isitvegan.info
German
BeyondSkin Ethical
shoes without compromise (breathable) womens' fashion. E-mail
available
Bourgeois Boheme Vegan and
Vegetarian shoes and accessories (0)207 602 9067S
Ethical Wares Cruelty-free clothing (breathable) 01929 480
360
Freerangers Vegan
shoes clothing and animal friendly products (breathable) (0)1661
831781. Also sell leather shoes t/a Simpleway.
Total Liberation - web details have changed but they had a stall
at a Peta event: please contact us if you know their address.
Sell some Ethical Wares stock at their shop, but not mail order.
MyVeganShoes Vegan,
vegetarian and Kosher footwear: ex Jade stock and sandals (0)161
975 5399. Also sell leather footwear t/a lovethoseshoes.com &
"own design sexy clothing" t/a Ladybwear.com
Veganline.com Animal free
shoes with very bouncy soles (breathable) 0800 458 4442
Veganstore Your one
stop vegan shop (breathable) 01273 302979
Vegetarian Shoes
Quality footwear without leather (breathable) 01273 691 913
If for any reason you need fake fur made-up into clothes, Faux.uk.com sell them ready
made. There are links under "materials"
above for buying fur cloth.
Website volunteer
wanted to update and edit a new version of these pages
News below from Evana, the European Vegetarian & Animals
News Agency. News from Australia - animalactivism.org in Queensland
- is on the Jackets
page, and from Canada - Geari.org - on the Hemp
page.
European
Vegetarian & Animal News Agency script by Feed
Digest
This site is moving to animal.nu
. As well as a more memorable name, there should be a chance for
readers to post comments on each entry and an integrated version
of the veggie recipe search engine that's on veganline.com at
the moment. There will be a discussion forum and a calander for
people to post events in and - well: isn't that enough? The setting-up
of the site has been done with a programme called Wordpress, including
a control panel for the editor to update the content. The work
would suit someone with an hour or so a week of time and internet
connection to spare, with an ability to learn how to use software
and a manic researcher's abliity to accumulate and organise vegan
information from web and other sources, such as vegan magazines
and reference books.
These UK shops sell vegan shoes internationally, but there
are others. Have a look at the internet discussion boards in the
US and Germany, or check the table below. Please let
us know when this list here is out of date. If you want to
order from abroad, your any credit card company will let you order
in pounds and convert the cost; if you are worried about security,
send a fax: they are very safe from interception.
There is also a cobblers
page for bicycle, bowling, jazz, medical, ballet, sport, fetish
shoes, horse saddles, and made-to-order single pairs, a links
page of other vegan sites and people who have exchanged links,
and a little on jackets and materials.
vegan shoes
Austria
Vier Profen
Sechshauserstr 48, A-1150 Wien, Ph 018950202
0 Fax 01895020299
WAY OF LIFE
Vegane of products
Fauna - Radetzkystrasse 21, A-1030
Vienna
Helmut Singer, Fuchsberg 15, A-3062 Kirchstetten
Tel: 02743/88 211, fax: 02743/88 214
vegan shoes
Belgium
Jaaks' Natuurcenter
Kapellestraat 66 9220 Hamme Belgium
Tel + Fax: 052 47 88 99 Probably a shop, but may be a mail-order
office. http://www.no-leather.be/
vegan shoes Switzerland
Vegetarian Shoe Imports
Postfach 143, CH-4652 Winznau, Ph + Fax: 062/295'10'18
vegan shoes
Finland
Decadenze Trading
PO Box 245 SF 00181 Helsinki Phone 694 8898
Pontos Nos.
Phone 430 2778
vegan shoes France
INFO
vegetarisme.info
Veganline.com
les chaussures vegan amorce les pochettes + le
chanvre de vestes de ceintures: Veganline
Netherlands?
Vega-life
? shop - produkten voor vegetarirs en veganisten
vegetarian shoes USA
99X
84 East 10th Street, Between 3rd and 4th Avenue,New
York 1003. Phone 212 460 8599
Birkenstock
UK mailorder 0800 132 194; US 800
451 1459
Chester
Boot
Just an online boot shop that stocks
Veg DMs, black boot and shoe
Heartland
mailorder non-leather shoes and apparel (515)
332 3087
Heavenlysoles
leather shoes. May stock vegan as well
Minkshoes.com
High heel fashion shoes worth listing because
they are self conciously vegan. Made in Italy, designed &
sold in US
Pangea
cruelty free shopping (301) 652 3181
Splaff
(flip flops)
Just flip flops made from old stuff
without harming anybody. Who needs more?
Veganshoes
Plastic clogs, flip flops, and chinese
microfibre womens mules. These are also sold by MyVeganShoes
in the UK
Truthbelts / Vegetarianbelts.com
Just belts but very good ones
Australia vegan boots + shoes
Vegan Wares
animal-free and environmentally responsible (03)
9417 0230
Raben's Store
359 George St Sidney (02) 9299 6365 [1997 info]
Spain
Veganline.com
los zapatos vegan anudan las carpetas
+ Camo de las chaquetas de las correas: Veganline
vegetarian shoes Sweden
Me and Mo
lader fria varor leather alternatives
Switzerland vegans
Vegan-Center
Gerechtigkeitsgasse 6, CH-3011 Bern, Phone 031
312 2128
Germany vegan
http://www.vegan-produkte.de
wilcommen beim Vegan-Versand
Cosmoviva.de
Der gute Schuh - Cosmo Viva - Vegane
Schuhe
Lebenswert
Ilona Baumeister, Weinstrasse 45,D,77815 Buhl
(Veganline.com)
vegan Schuhe lädt Riemenjackenmappen + -hanf
auf: Veganline
shoes - links below
Versandhandel
Produkte für ein besseres Leben
vegetarian shoes in Italy
Linus
calzature E Abbigliamento,
di Bova Donatella, Via Teatro Filarmonico n.3 + 045 801 0922
- leather and specially-made lorica shoes.
Vegetalia
viale dei mille, 26/b rosso, firenze
+39 05 557303 - Vegetarian Shoes
progetto gaia
import vegetarian shoes... via copernico
41, milano +39 02 67075700
(Veganline)
i pattini vegan carica il sistema
i raccoglitori + la canapa dei rivestimenti delle cinghie: Veganline
?shop
progettogaia.org
Associazione Progetto Gaia
vegetarian Portugal
Vegetarian Shoes
Viale Dei Mille, 26/B Rosso, Firenze 5 tel 55
576 303
(Veganline)
as sapatas vegan carregam carteiras
+ hemp dos revestimentos das correias: Veganline
The Cobblers page lists specialist suppliers for bicycle,
bowling, jazz, sport, fetish shoes and horse saddles.
BIRKENSTOCK:
If you have too much money, one option is to buy a pair of sandals
for £50 or flip-flops for £25 at London The
Natural Shoe Company, Neal St (white front), Covent Garden and
New Kings Road, Brighton Vegetarian Shoes Dorset
Ethical Wares Mailorder 0800 132 194.Local stockist
& repairs 0171 603 2644. Other things you
can do with money are to put it in your pension fund, set-up a
trust, give it to a cruelty-free charity, or reduce your hours
of work. You will find veggie sandals in most high streets, and
Birkenstock mainly makes leather shoes.
ETHICAL
WARES Caegwyn, Temple Bar, Felinfach, Lampeter,
Caredigion SA48 7SA. 01929 480360 do 28 styles of hiking shoes,
cushion-sole boots, and various shoes at about forty to sixty
pounds. They are a co-op with a policy of not trading with repressive
regimes such as China (quite unlike American trainer firms which
seem only to buy from repressive regimes and make public
statements that Burma is not repressive enough). Ethical wares
wholesale to shops in the USA, Sweden & Germany. : Birmingham
One Earth Shop 54 Allison St, Digbeth, 0121 632 6909Kent
Animal
Aid, The Old Chapel, Bradford St Tonbridge TN9 1AW Nottingham
Rainbow
Centre 180 Mansfield Rd 0115 958 5666. This last address
is also home to every other cruelty free cause you could imagine,
from the animal contacts directory online to commercial
food to worldwide publishers of "What's Wrong With McDonald's?"
sheets.
FREERANGERS
9b Marquis Ct, Low Prudhoe, Northumberland, NE42 6PJ 01661 831
781 is the same firm as Simpleway, who make leather and non-leather
shoemaking kits. The vegan catalogue has a three of four smart
Lorica designs that ara a little different to what other people
are doing, and the firm can make odd shoes - singles, pairs different
sizes and such - for very little extra. A nice touch is that the
catalogue is CD size, so you can keep in neatly on the bookshelf
all year.
NATURAL SHOE STORE, mailorder, wholesale, retail
at London, Neal St (black shop front) & 325 Kings Rd.
?Dublin, Glasgow, Unit 22, Princes Sq, Buchannan
St, sometimes commission one or two designs of vegan shoes and
always stock one or two from Vegetarian Shoes, as well as vegan
Berkenstocks and, recently, upmarket trainers called ECCO.Prices
are what you would expect of a fashionable boutique with lots
of assistants - thirty pounds for canvas shoes for example. Shoes
are posted-out for I think three or four pounds in the UK and
nearly thirty for the USA. They are distributors for Birkenstock
in the UK, although I am not sure if the 0800 number for Birkenstocks
works for ordering other brands.
VEGANLINE.com
0800 458 4442, FREEPOST LON10506, London SW14 1YY will take an
order online or phone. As well as hi-tec breathable
tops, their animal free range has patent bouncy soles. At the
back of the site are odds and ends - this firm took over stock
from T'arus and Luxury Without Leather - so you never quite know
what you'll find, like half a dozen designs of belt for thin people
only. Previous versions of this site mentioned Tony's Hemp Corner
as a possible stockist, but he didn't pay! - please get in touch
if you know anywhere that might want to stock veganline shoes.
VEGETARIAN
SHOES, 12 Gardner St Brighton is the shop every
vegan has heard of. They stock DMs made under license, a no-frills
Derby boot for about £50, Birkenstocks, & plastic jackets.
You might find them more expensive than your local market at £40-£50
for Hi-Tec trainers or blue/white Chinese plimsolls, with postage
£11 for the USA or £4 a pair in mainland UK. Ireland
has a surcharge on the postage. Stockists are in London
The Natural Shoe Company, Neal St, Covent Garden (one or two lines
in stock). Mailorder 01273 691 913 Poland, Portugal,
Switzerland, Italy, Germany & Sweden have Veggie Shoes
dealers, and they allow some overseas stockists to do mail
order in their own right.
VEGAN & VEGETARIAN NONLEATHER SHOE &
BOOT ADVERTS
CLOSED VEGAN SHOE SHOPS & FACTORIES: Planet V/Moko/Mokotan
has dived under the surface again. World of Difference
in Euston, and the stall in Camden Market. Hawkins
- the Northampton factory which sold to wholesalers, such as the
Getta Grip brand, closed although another firm bought the brand
to GT HAWKINS fashion and hiking boots from Italy. Getta Grip
are still going but can't get vegan shoes any more: the market
is pretty much sewn-up by Vegetarian Shoes who won't let their
suppliers sell to anyone else. Lorica-top DMs and their superior
rival, Tredairs are available through other shops now. Metro shoes,
the rough and ready plastic womens' shoe factory in London, has
closed.
The little canvas boots with injection-moulded souls that were
so popular with vegans in the 80s are still made, but not imported
to the UK - French (Palladium with little felt insoles), Portugese
and Isreali (Nagev Sabra) and bad Chinese versions have turned
fashion against the things in such a strong pendulem swing that
nobody dares import them. Fashion has also moved against plastic
women's shoes with mesh linings that are meant to keep your skin
away from the vinyl. The system does work in cold climates until
the lining wears out, and has a dedicated band of vegan followers.
A wholesaler called Jay-Bill still sells the Comfort Plus brand
for a factory in the Midlands, and there are other firms doing
the same thing. Plastic non-breathable mens' shoes under shop
brands or called Cushy Numbers were made by Abbeyvogue
until early 2001, and stock might still be in the shops because
they did large production runs.
British Bata, who used to make plimsolls in the 1950s and still
made wellies and "slush moulded" specialist wellie-like
products have now sold their tools to Viking in Malaysia.
RSS Edge Shoes of Bilston, Birmingham, are now a wholesaler
rather than a manufacturer, like their much larger rival
E Sutton who sell "Comfort Plus" and are financially
linked to J Bill Wholesale and Courtesy Shoes retail. Both have
kept their tools and interest in design, but get their own designs
made in India (RSS Edge) or China (E Sutton).
Lambert Howarth, the PLC chinese import firm that used to be
a shoe maker and supplies a lot to M&S, decided to close it's
Ronaldsway Shoe Company that made Blizzard Boots and slippers.
The shoes are still available, but made in China. Similar waterproof
cloth-top boots are still made in Italy.
PLASTIC SHOES THAT MIGHT SUIT VEGANS
ECCO the upmarket Danish trainer and leather shoe firm,
did sell £60+ vegan trainer in Natural shoe store. They
also have an enquiry line on 0800 387 368 and a range of leather
stuff. When I asked where to get the vegan stuff, they said "sorry,
it's got petrochemicals in it", which doesn't make me any
less confused.
EARLY DAYS 52 Kenilworth Drive, Oadby, Leicestershire
do a catalogue of "high quality babies' and childrens' shoes
in both leather and PVC" for 10-50 pounds: 0116 271 6944
for a catalogue.
MAGIC SHOE COMPANY London, mto, wholesale, mailorder, retail
at 88 Mile End Rd E1 (workshop and showroom) and 27 Shorts Gardens,
Covent Garden (basement showroom) has stiletto boots and mules
for rubber fetishists, such as thigh-length lace-ups. Catalogues
are three pounds by credit card on the phone. The staff are quite
used to special requests for different materials and for high
heels in mens' sizes, although if your fetish is for anorak cloth
you would save 40 - 60 pounds by going to Loveson.
NEW BALANCE and ECCO sometimes sell vegan trainers,
and in the UK you can often tell from the label. Strictly speaking,
there might be a reconstituted leather which they legally have
to call synthetic. More often the bias goes the other way, because
there's a higher tax on importing vegan shoes, and that could
be why trainer
firms are coy about the vegan products in their range. New
Balance and ECCO are the only ones to use european factories,
so they might be more honest. They are also likely to pay £4.50
an hour with national insurance, holidays, health and safety checks,
and all the things which you might think you are undermining if
you buy from China. To pay for these, New Balance and ECCO have
decided not to compete in paying vast amounts for celebrity sponsorship,
reasoning some buyers of trainers look for more in a brand.
NORTHAMPTON FOOTWEAR DISTRIBUTORS wholesale, retail mailorder
sometimes does plastic shoes - just trainers or "for ladies"
in this Autumn 98 catalogue, and several types of slippers, flip
flops & high heels. Most lines are different for "ladies"
"men" and "children" - just to keep us in
our place and act as a reminder should we ever forget our rôle
in the world. Labelling of "other materials" or "leather"
looks more honest than thorough. This firm keeps costs down by
doing just one bulk mail-out of catologues each season, from which
they sell out of stock before the next one's due. But as a price
guide, they're often cheaper than your local market at £4-5
for Hi-Tec trainers or blue/white Chinese plimsolls. Postage is
£3.75 per order so you might pay over ten pounds for some
choices. 01604 790 827
WOVEN
NYLON BOOTS ARE PROBABLY VEGAN
My mum has biked hundreds of miles in woven nylon boots and
tells me that they are very practical at 20- 40 pounds. They are
available though mainstream wholesalers. However, a confusing
market exists. Exactly similar designs are made by a firm in Italy
(Samitex), Spain (Mephisto), Chinese production for the UK market
(Lambert Howarth) and Germany (Rhode). I am told by Lambert Howarth
that the suede boots they used to make do contain real leather
- it was sprayed-on to the nylon in powder at the factory they
used to run in the Isle of Mann. Otherwise they are all vegan
and I guess that the other firms' versions are too. The cloth
is of a fairly recent generation which is meant to keep water
moisture out but not in - trademarked under names like Aquatex.
These shoes are not promoted by any one company very much,
and it is hard to find out where to get them unless they appear
on a shelf for you. If you can get to a one-branch family-run
shop on a weekday, when the more clued-up staff are on duty, ask
if you can see their wholesalers' catalogue to check the range
of woven nylon shoes available. Say it is because you are vegan
and you are prepared to put down a deposit and wait till the next
delivery for your choice of shoes to come-in. Say things like
"that's interesting" to reward any specialist knowledge
that they have. Pick a shop next to a market if you can, rather
than in a high street. Print the "vegan specialists"
part of this page for them if they want vegan shoes wholesale,
and tell them that there are over 250,000 vegans in the UK. They
may carry some styles in stock, although seldom in mens' sizes.
If you live in Lancashire. Gavelle's, Gavelles mill, Waterfoot,
Rossendale, Lancs do wholesale & retail 01706
215 417. In London, Mackesons wholesale/retail, 270 Kilburn
H Rd sometimes do Rhode as well.
GORETEX UK customer service 01506 412 525 tell me that
they don't know of any firms here selling leather-free shoes,
but that some may be imported from Germany on a small scale. Like
Aquatex cloth, this membrane seems to be a finely-spun form of
nylon which only allows water through as a vapor. This reduces
the sauna-effect of wearing waterproof clothes and happy hiking
people love it. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the Wearing - a
- Horrible - Bit - of - Happy - Hikers' - Nylon - Anorak - Effect,
but you can't solve all problems at once, can you?
CANVAS
This is a very unstable market, with no UK producers and
17.5% tariff on far eastern imports. One or two firms like Converse
make them in the USA, but are quite expensive and sell on brand-image
more than value. Mainstream shops don't like to hold stock over
winter. There is a total exclusion on imports from prison workshops
overseas, but this does not apply to countries where working conditions
are prison-like, such as Vietnam where repeated sexual abuse of
employees is commonplace: Dunlop Green Flash Tennis shoes are
made there quite legally, and the World Trade Organisation tries
to reduce governments right to ban these imports in the name of
fairness. Likewise, Sri Lankan canvas boots are imported sporadically
to independent shops despite human rights abuses in the civil
war there. The pair of Sri Lankan boots that I bought were small
for the stated size and made of a form of rubber that softened
over a year or two without wearing, so you might not want to buy
them anyway.
SPORTS SHOPS - a moral culture clash, but buy
the glue and insoles
... £5 trainer insoles are very strong and
a quarter of an inch thick - these add a lot of life of whatever
you wear and are less alarming to put in the washing machine.
BISON MARATHON glue is strong enough to mend
your shoes without a patch as well as being convincingly vegan
& the DUNLOP GREEN FLASH trainer from Vietnam has a
quarter-inch layer of bouncy rubber in the bottom that makes it
worth the £15 (Bastins Southampton on 01489 573 215
stock Green Flash up to size 14). If you are interested in being
a moral consumer, though, you might find Dunlop, Nike and the
others unacceptable because they use semi-slave labour in Vietnam
and China, as well as encouraging those regimes to reduce employment
protection and human rights. For example Nike publicized a speech
in which their chair warned the Burmese military government
of pricing its people out of the labour market although Burmese
workers have some of the worst pay and conditions anywhere. These
firms spend much more on "leveraging" and advertising
than they do on labour, and this is directed at children, lonely
people who want to fit-in, and generally at the most vulnerable
groups in society. Leveraging is the word used in these firms
for exploiting monopoly power - for example in controlling retailers
and prices, clever ways of forcing people to stick to one brand,
trade-marking ordinary words, buying control of allied industries
and so-on. There is a link to information about firms like NIKE
on the links page.AMAZON: Books > Subjects
> Food & Drink > Vegetarian & Vegan. Other books
such as Peter Singer on Animal Rights sold under Animals &
Society.
site by Veganline
the online shoe shop with free delivery 0800 458 4442
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