Omaking

A shoe repair shop in 1927. Still going, four generations later.

OmaKing began in 1927 in Vastseliina, Estonia, as a repair shop run by a man called Peeter, which is to say it spent its early years fixing other people's shoes before getting round to making its own. The name translates roughly as "my own shoe." Four generations on, his great-grandchild runs it, and the shoes are still made in Estonia from wool felt, leather, cork and natural fibres. Browse the full footwear edit or find more from the region in our Baltic brands collection.

Slippers, barefoot shoes, and a flat called the Kuutsid.

The range runs to house slippers and wool felt indoor shoes, soft-soled leather styles that double as dance and gymnastics shoes, barefoot cuts with a wide toe box and no heel rise at all, insoles, and the Kuutsid, which is essentially a slipper that has learned to go outside. TOKU is the design-led younger line, built from as few materials as possible: leather upper and lining, an EVA sole, an insole of coconut fibre under natural cork. Children's sizes exist, so have a look at baby and children's footwear and the wider baby and kids edit. Close to a century in one family also puts them in good company among our family-owned brands.

Comfortable is not the same as having given up.

These are shoes for people who have quietly concluded that their feet hold opinions worth listening to. Find something for someone else in our gifts edit, browse everyone we stock in the brand directory, shop by location, or read the stories behind the brands in the journal.