As you might know all Red Wing Shoes are crafted with a so called Goodyear Welt. This is a traditional technique to attach the sole to a shoe, by which an undersole is stitched to the upper of the shoe through an extra midsole. Its greatest benefit is that it keeps your feet dry and on top of it they are easy to resole once worn off.
Red Wing uses several soles for their Heritage Collection: there is the White Traction Tred Sole (underneath most of the Moc Toes); the Nitrile Cork Sole (Iron Ranger); and the Roccia Sole (Beckman collection). Because all of these Red Wing shoes are soled with the Goodyear Welt method, you can easily replace the original sole with a different type. In the Netherlands we have Ger Wijsman, certified Red Wing Shoes cobbler, who fixes all of the resoles for us. Lately we had a lot of customers who wanted to play around with the soles. We picked out a few of the combinations we really admired. Inspirational, what do you think?
