How to Make Regency & Victorian Shoes: Beginner Shoemaking

Thank you to HelloFresh for sponsoring this video. Use code NICOLER14 for up to 14 FREE MEALS across your first 5 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3wFQ1E7 The most common request I get is to do more shoemaking tutorials- which is probably the most difficult thing to make! Shoemaking is incredibly complex, and unlike sewing clothing, there's little room for error and adjustment. And if something doesn't fit, it can be very painful. So, as I was preparing to start a pair of early 19th century shoes this month, I figured this might be the best place to start! I know it seems a bit out of order, but I think it's important to understand HOW these things go together to understand why future videos on lasts, fitting, patterning, etc are so essential and how they work! The Regency through the early Victorian era has some of the simplest shoes as well. Completely flat styles start appearing at the beginning of the century and continue on through the early 1850s. There's more than one method of shoemaking during this time, and there is a wide variety of styles as well, but the basics of the process are fairly universal. For this video, I'm using a process of cementing the shoe together. This wasn't common until the 1830s, but it's how most modern shoes are produced and is MUCH simpler than the stitching methods of previous decades. The result won't look different from the exterior, but it requires about half as many tools and supplies and a quarter of the time (h