From the workshop

Three shapes, three different jobs. A plain guide to choosing between a fisherman sandal, a toe-loop and a slide — and how each one fits.

Leather sandals do not wear out. They dry out, get soaked, or get stored badly. Five habits that keep a pair going for years.

“Genuine leather” on a label tells you almost nothing. Here is what forty years on a cutting table teaches you to look for instead.

NABOLY sandals run true to EU size, but leather straps behave differently from closed shoes. How to measure, when to size down, and how to check the fit is right.

Three generations in, the NABOLY factory still reads every hide on the cutting table before a single upper is clicked. Here is what that means for the pair you wear.