I've got a pair and they are the best shoes I've ever worn, I bought them with my first paycheck when I was 16, and looking at this craftsmanship it truly makes me so proud of the mastery in handcrafting that we have in Great Britain, It is truly breathtaking the amount of knowledge and skill inherent in even one stage of the shoe crafting.

i got barker shoes they from 1910's, they was my great grandfathers he pasted them down to my grandfather, then to my father, now i own them i still wear them on special occasions. If the shoes are still made the same way they would last a lifetime.

just received my first pair of Barker today... so wow!!

I own a custom grade hand made Brogue boots. They are awesome.

Love my Barker shoes great quality and all day comfort

it is said that there is still somewhere in a museum the original potato this video was recorded with

Интересный ролик. Спасибо, уважаемая Валерия!

oh, i love the hand-made shoes !

thank you really enjoyed your video

Nice quality shoes, for a fair price.

@paquitobites Edward green is definitely a step above. Although if you compare a basic CJ with Tricker's , I still think Tricker's has that handmade flair that CJ doesn't have. I have never seen a CJ handgrade, but I have heard that the Sargent exclusives are also very very value for money. I'll be sticking to herrings (loake/ barker) for Christmas!

I do enjoy my Barker Shoes

My favrat shoes barkar

What is real 'handmade' is 'made just by hand'.hand stitching, hand clicking etc...this is made mostly by machines...individualy, but still by machines.

These shoes look like the Barker Westfield country Oxfords.

Hi, from Argentina, your videos are very informative and well qualified from every aspect. I have one question for you please, - Can you tell me what is the model of sewing machine that apeare in midle of video is one with a puller or wheel or something that, sorry for my bad English but I hope that this well-written grammar, but if wrong, please sorry me, and very thanks to you, or thank you so much.

Much more automation than I imagined.

Applying force to a needle by hand does not make stitching more handmade than stitching with a sawing machine. After all these machines are just mechanized tools

Штамп производителя Barker нужно ставить в перейме, недалеко от каблука, поскольку профилактика закрывает всю подмётку вместе с вашей печатью, парни.

Я из России и у меня примерно пар 10. Ничего другого не покупаю. Выглядят отлично. Главное - свой размер и колодка.

Very cool... Informative...

Wow!

Well, those of us who have experience with John Lobb--both the bespoke shoes made on a carved last based on personal measurements and the catalog lines--might find this video's claims about Barker a bit excessive.

good gravy, how many people are needed to make one of these shoes? :) seriously, these look like great shoes and i wish i could afford them! lol.

отличная обувь-знаю не по наслышке.

*Круто*

LEATHER MOKOSEN SHOES

I'd say these shoes are worth €600-700. They still aren't the best traditional shoes you can get. They use all same last and the lasts are identical to each other. The reality is that feet aren't identical. Craft the shoes to custom last and you put additional €200-500. Those will feel the best on your feet and will last for your entire life.

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Stuffed with tissue paper?? What happened to the shoe trees??

no more authentic barker shoes my one start to tear up from heel side leather doesn't tear they stretch

Some years ago I bought a pair of Barkers "Flex" shoes. They fell apart in weeks. They have a good reputation for quality, and everybody makes mistakes. What sets quality apart is the way in which these mistakes are dealt with, which in the case of Barkers shoes was truly shocking. The customer service line at the time was the same as the sales line. This could mean that they have a small number of issues to deal with, or that they don't take customer service seriously, or both. The contact I made finally resulted finally in my having a telephone conversation with the smug tosser in this video. He implied I wasn't telling the truth, and tried to flog me another pair of the same shoes at half-price. I refused, and it was left there, with me 120-odd quid down and a crappy pair of shoes. I will never buy a pair of Barkers again.

It seems to me that since the making of this video Barker has gone downhill. Or the narrator is fibbing to us. There is simply NO WAY you can be producing the ‘finest’ English shoes in the world at £250-300 a pair retail. I even see on their website they are flogging cemented shoes with a fake welt. A reason to boycott right there for any lover of quality shoes. Probably corrected grain leather, too. Are the ladies still employed making the uppers, or did Barker send their jobs over to India like Loake and others? Just so people are aware, many of these companies have the uppers made in Asia, then send them over to England to have the sole put on so they can call it ‘Made in England’. If this is not shameful, why don’t these companies boast about putting British ladies out of a job for cheap third world slave labour?

one word Esquivel.

"completely hand made" Im not sure how it could be less hand made, tbh...machines do literally every part, even lasting

$1800 shoes. They are nice looking and all, but I bet they are really uncomfortable lol