Comment on Sandal Soles: Running And Walking Sandals To Go Over Shoes?
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years agoyeah I think that could work, just with a beefier sole probably
the point of the galoshes was to keep the feet clean or dry, idk if they were optimized to last a long time with soles
The idea is to make the sole easy to attach and detach, and to create maybe a durable shoe so you would only have to keep easily swapping soles
idk what is needed to make the shoe part durable. I guess they compress and can fall apart over time. Not an expert enough of a cobbler, but sometimes it amazes me to no end how these aren't like solved problems with readily adopted solutions. Or maybe shoes simply die and that's ok too, but I was looking to minimize the amount that needs to be replaced.
brie@venera.social 2 years ago
As for re-soling (sorry, I don't know English term), it was quite common operation not so long ago, done by cobblers. I suppose its decline in popularity was due to falling cost of machine work in comparison to artisan's one; at some point it was just cheaper to get another pair of mass produced shoes.
It wasn't real re-soling, though; the real sole, as construction element of shoe, was covered with a layer of leather or rubber, and only this layer was replaced; so, the real work was just to adjust the shape and apply a good glue.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
My updated thought is to adapt a project like this to fit over a shoe, and/or to tear the soles off an old shoe and replace with this and make a swappable attachable design: https://www.instructables.com/Tire-Sandals/