Midas x Skolyx x Dr. Sole Cap toe service boot brown pullup UK6 / EU40 - Seconds

Midas Bootmaker x Skolyx x Dr. Sole
Listed below are the full specifications of these shoes, and how they differ from standard Goodyear welted shoes:

- Lasted by hand, using pliers and hand hammered nails. When the upper is pulled over the shoe last, this is done with two different machines on standard Goodyear welted shoes.
- Insole made of thick vegetable tanned shoulder leather where the holdfast for the welt seam is carved out by hand with a sharp knife. On regular welted shoes it's a slightly thinner leather insole with a canvas strip glued to it, to which the welt is stitched.
- The heel stiffeners are made from the same type of leather as the insole, where it's split into thinner pieces and these are then cut and skived by hand to act as stiffeners, which when attached by hand treated with starch-based paste which makes the leather stiff when dry. On regular welted shoes, the heel stiffener is usually made of celastic or leather board (leather dust mixed with glue) that is preformed, in some cases (as on TLB Mallorca Artista) of real leather but often also then preformed.
- Welt stitch sewn by hand, with awl, needle and twisted thread. When the leather strip that runs around the shoe is attached to the upper leather (lining in the case of Veldtschoen) and the insole, the seam on regular welted shoes is sewn with a Goodyear machine.
- Sole stitch sewn by hand. The seam that attaches the welt to the outsole, the one that is removed and remade when you resole the shoes (until the welt becomes too worn and needs to be replaced as well) and which is sewn with a McKay sewing machine on regular welted shoes.
- The bottom filling consists of a cork plate in the front part, instead of the cheaper cork mass usually used. At the waist is a metal shank covered with the same vegetable tanned leather as the insole is made of, otherwise often just cork mass is used here as well.
- The heel is built up layer by layer, and pegged by hand from both the bottom and the inside of the shoe. Almost all factory-made welted shoes use pre-built heels that are put on the shoes in one piece and pegged by machine.

Read even more about how the shoes are made and about Midas Bootmaker, and watch footage of the production, here.


Sizing guidance
Midas boots are made in full EU sizes, which means that the difference in length between each size is approximately one Paris Point 6,6 mm. That can be compared to UK/US sizing which is 8,46 mm difference between full sizes, 4,23 mm between half sizes. Therefore, one can't really directly compare Midas sizing to UK/US sizing. Furthermore, since these are boots with roomy, round toe boxes, the length between the toes and front part of the shoe is in general relatively short, especially compared to regular dress shoes.

Below you'll find measurements of the different sizes. We recommend approximately around 10 mm shorter feet. When in between sizes, choose the larger size and add a thin leather insole (note, our insoles are small in size, choose EU43 for shoes in EU42). Inner length is taken from the back point of the shoe furthest back and furthest front, with a shoe measurement device, shown in mm.




As mentioned, it's difficult to do direct comparisons to UK/US sizes, but to help further you can see the closest "true to size" UK welted dress shoes sizing below. Normally US sizing is 1 up from this (for example for Allen Edmonds 65 last or Viberg 2030 last), for some brands only 0,5 (for example for Alden Barrie). 



For further sizing guidance, please contact us at ktj@skolyx.se.