Fine Custom Shoes

NEW! THE HILLSBORO SLIPPER
We are pleased to introduce The Hillsboro Slipper, reinvented from the classic ‘Albert Slipper’ silhouette. Versatile enough to be worn with a tuxedo or jeans. Custom crafted and personalized with your monogram, family crest or club logo. Visit http://hillsboroshoe.com to order.


OTABO ORTHOPEDIA
Corrective comfort footwear is now available through C. Peds and clinics. Visit the Otabo Orthopedia page for more information.


OTABO BLOG
Please visit http://customshoes.otabo.com to meet the people, partners, projects and research that motivate and inspire us; and learn about everything from new technologies we’re testing out, to tips from PGA pros on how to improve your game.


OUR PROCESS

With Otabo's unique scanning process, over 200,000 data points are captured to create 3D digital models of your feet. You may also opt to have your feet sock casted for custom-molded inserts and other Otabo Orthopedia services. Measurements from your scans or cast, fit preferences and shoe order with custom design options are sent to our factory.  Applying the highest standards of shoemaking, we custom cut each last and then craft your shoes using the finest leathers & materials from around the world - one shoe to the best fit of your left foot, another to your right. Your Otabo fine custom shoes are delivered to you in about 4 to 6 weeks.

REINTRODUCING SHOEMAKER TO SHOE WEARER
Over 25 years ago fate drew me into the footwear industry, and I was fortunate enough to play a major role in the rise of modern industrialized shoe making in Asia.

It has been interesting, exciting and endlessly challenging. Making shoes is about the craft and the knowledge; the art and the science; about fine leathers and complex mechanical machines. People who design custom footwear; people who make them; people who buy them and wear them.

Shoes used to be made for people, by other people. There was a personal relationship between the shoe wearer and the shoe maker. That relationship changed over time as the shoe making moved to family-owned factories and the selling to local retail shops. But still, there was a connection - from the factory to retailer and from retailer to customer.

Today, huge corporate factories in Asia make shoes for huge corporate brands, which sell to huge corporate retail chains. Company managers decide which shoes will be made and advertising campaigns tell customers what they will want. The customers - the people who actually buy and wear the shoes - have very little say in what is made or how it will look, feel and fit.

Shoe maker and shoe wearer never meet.
It shoudn't be this way.

For the past decade the men and women of Otabo have been working to create, collect and invent the technologies necessary to bring shoe making and the customer together again. We have succeeded in combining technologies from other industries, other countries, and of our own invention and design, to build a unique process for delivering the finest custom shoes personally engineered for our customers. We make a pair of shoes just for you - a unique one for your left foot, another for your right.

I invite you to visit us and experience shoes in a new way, whether looking for custom golf shoes or custom made dress shoes. We want to make the best pair you have ever owned - made just for you, at Otabo.

Howard Shaffer
President and Founder