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Andrew McDonald Shoemaker: Crafting Timeless Footwear in the Heart of Sydney
Jul 10, 2025
Andrew McDonald Shoemaker: Crafting Timeless Footwear in the Heart of Sydney
News| 2nd June 2025
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Hand Dyeing: Elevating Shoes to New Heights
May 3, 2024
Hand dyeing is the process of adding colour or texture to the leather. Hand-dyed shoes have a depth of colour that captivate the eye and create an aura of authenticity.
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Oxford shoes
Sep 6, 2023
Elevate Your Style with Timeless Elegance: Oxford Men's Shoes by Andrew McDonald
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So how was your year ? the year in review.
Dec 8, 2020
In this short video retailers in The Strand Arcade talk about their experiences dealing with covid in 2020. The ups and the downs as well as the highlights and joy of this year.
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Dubbo gaol museum shoemaking video
Nov 10, 2020
This short video depicts some of the processes used by prisoners making shoes at old Dubbo gaol. The gaol is now a museum. As a visitor when you peer into the jail cell you will see this video playing reproducing the shoemaking techniques of yore.
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Womens shoe style guide
Aug 1, 2020
There’s a vast variety of shoe styles for women, each with their own identity and history. The wide array of women's shoe styles can sometimes leave us a little confused as to what's what, and when certain women's shoe types should be worn.
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The Path to Sustainable Shoes
Jun 15, 2020
We are experimenting with materials that can reduce the environmental impact in collaboration with a sustainable consultancy called "Sustainable Pineapple" who are helping small businesses to become more ethical, by using materials such as pineapple, orange skin and cactus.
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The shoemaking process
Jun 2, 2020
This is the third blog in our 4 part series on slow fashion.The sustainable feature of bespoke handmade shoes is fit. Factory made shoes do not always fit, this is why 70% of people surveyed said they own shoes that do not fit.
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Handmade versus factory made
May 18, 2020
This is the second of our four part series on sustainable and slow fashion.Here we discuss the pros and cons of handmade shoes versus factory made. In the previous article we discussed the environmental impact of mass produced fast fashion and how it differs from sustainable fashion, if you missed it you can read the article on our blog.
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The rise of sustainable fashion
May 4, 2020
As part of our purpose of offering high quality shoes we have started exploring sustainable materials. This is the first of a 4 part series on sustainable and slow fashion, a subject Andrew is passionate about.
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Happy Feet Quay quarterly magazine
Mar 28, 2020
We take you through a step by step guide to leather shoe cleaning. There are five basic steps . 1 Clean off loose dirt . 2. Use a good quality polish . 3. let polish dry 4. brush buff the leather . 5. Give your shoes a final polish again .
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Big boots to fill as private equity sizes up RM Williams
Nov 11, 2019
A.McDonald featured in Sydney Morning herald Saturday 9/11/19 .
For Sydney shoemaker Andrew McDonald, there's a pretty simple pitch behind a pair of RM Williams boots.
"When you buy them it's no-frills," the experienced cordwainer says. "You just want quality."
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