Woodrow Shoes

Today we visited Florida Shoes, a shoe factory in Norwich. They are famous for Van Dal shoes and a history of working in Norwich as shoe makers. They have factories all around the world including China and Italy where they get their materials. It takes 2-3 months to crteate a shoe from the drawing board to the shops, during 2 weeks some shoes are in other parts of the world being put together.

       Florida shoes have been making shoes for 75 years since 1936 (see right) and make 7,000,000 pairs a year, thats about 525,000,000  pairs of shoes sice they started! They get most of their materials for China but the more expensive ones come from Itay. I have writen up a step-by-step guide on how to make shoes in my Sketch books too.

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