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

More recent list: http://www.animalprotectiongroup.de/page.php?106

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

As I no longer have time to do much with the site, all I can do is offer server space and a domain name to people keen to write something similar.
Vegguide.org in the USA offers open source code for their site - I don't know if that's relevant.

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.

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
	Conscient.es	Vegetarian Shoes shop in Spain... (english and spanish)
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.

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

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?

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.

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