# Shoes
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167
**Category:** Equipment and Reviews
**Created:** [March 10, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167 "2019-03-10T10:49:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 293
### Author:  [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6057 "2021-09-16T09:21:20Z")
Interesting… how are they doing the research? A lot of companies keep everything secret and then you fall into the trap of having to rate non-declaring companies (like for example [Supreme](https://directory.goodonyou.eco/brand/supreme)) lower than companies that (perhaps cynically) declare their eco-credentials like Cariuma.
Seems like if this trend continues it will eventually force every company to be pro-active rather than taking the say nothing route.
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6058 "2021-09-16T09:23:39Z")
> [@jimo](#):
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> Interesting… how are they doing the research?
Fuck knows, I’ll ask her when she gets home
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### Author:  [@Snurp](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Snurp)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6059 "2021-09-16T09:42:37Z")
That’s really interesting, who are her customers? Is it like a consultancy gig for retailers? I imagine ethical stuff like that is pretty hard to monetize so props to her
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6060 "2021-09-16T09:56:56Z")
It’s a tricky one as sustainability is one of their ‘things’ but obviously they need to generate income somehow. So people/consumers will be signposted or given alternative choices to what they are purchasing to something ethically ‘better’, and then making money from the referral (I think). There’s a lot of interest and have some major labels on board but still a long way to go. They are launching in France as their first market, I think Nordics next.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6061 "2021-09-16T10:06:19Z")
Does she have a desk at the Berrics?
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### Author:  [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6062 "2021-09-16T10:37:18Z")
That’s kind of what the site I linked to is doing:
> **[Good On You Directory - Search Thousands of Fashion Brand Ratings](https://directory.goodonyou.eco/)**
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> Search sustainability ratings for thousands of fashion brands. Learn their impact on people, planet and animals. Discover new ethical clothing labels.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6063 "2021-09-16T11:48:49Z")
Just noticed the tongue label on the Reynolds Half Cabs, what a bummer. They got the toe right and then fucked up the tongue label. So close.
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### Author:  [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6064 "2021-09-16T11:49:40Z")
> [@jimo](#):
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> Cariuma are rated ‘Good’. Emerica/Etnies are rated as ‘Avoid’ simply because they don’t have any evidence (in the form of official statements/press releases I presume?) of doing things ethically.
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> So my question is…should every brand be doing this? Will they all eventually be forced to? Does it actually make any difference?
I recall Etnies/Sole Tech starting their Plant a Tree campaign a few years back, which I think they’re still doing. Plus, they have experimented with all synthetic shoes, sustainable glue and a few other similar developments in the past.
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### Author:  [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6065 "2021-09-16T12:05:08Z")
Yeah I knew this and checked their website but there’s absolutely nothing on there to prove they have delivered on what they set out to do way back.
[https://www.soletechnology.com/Pages/Environment.aspx](https://www.soletechnology.com/Pages/Environment.aspx)
They do say this though 😃
“Sole Technology answers to a greater calling: the future of action sports, humanity and our planet.”
I did find more info here but I’m just googling stuff. It’s why I asked Spanky how his wife is researching her take on how sustainable companies are. I have no idea what they website I was linking to above is doing.
> **[SOLE TECHNOLOGY: eco-friendly skateboards shoes with one goal: Carbon Neutral...](https://www.bipiz.org/en/csr-best-practices/sole-technology-eco-friendly-skateboards-shoes-with-one-goal-carbon-neutral-in-2020.html)**
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> With a turnover of $ 200 million achieved in 70 countries, Sole Technology is the leader in footwear and apparel sales for extreme sports. In 1988, the Frenchman Pierre-André Sénizergues, former world champion of skateboarding, launched the Etnies...
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### Author:  [@Londonskater](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Londonskater)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6066 "2021-09-16T13:12:29Z")
I asked about the proving issue recently, and I was told that ultimately to jump through hoops to get certification costs a bomb in terms of submitting documents and the manpower to create those documents of proof.
I guess unsurprisingly the companies certifying are doing very well for themselves.
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### Author:  [@doowyrag](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/doowyrag)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6067 "2021-09-16T14:02:00Z")
Reminds me of these delights that Anon posted in the old place..
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### Author:  [@doowyrag](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/doowyrag)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6068 "2021-09-16T14:05:16Z")
I’m quite taken by the Reynolds ‘Old Skools’ but hadn’t noticed that label.
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### Author:  [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6069 "2021-09-16T14:06:42Z")
is that not the otherside of the label?
don’t mind it.
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### Author:  [@doowyrag](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/doowyrag)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6070 "2021-09-16T14:17:02Z")
It looks like the top / front to me.
Not a deal breaker really.. but the £75 could well be.
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### Author:  [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6071 "2021-09-16T15:27:17Z")
What’s up with it?
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6072 "2021-09-16T15:49:12Z")
It’s nothing like the normal Half Cab tongue label. It looks like a t-shirt tag, or something that should be on the inside. Shoes with writing on them look weird anyway, let alone complete sentences.
Also I don’t like the checkerboard stuff they started going so heavy on when Grosso passed.
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### Author:  [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6073 "2021-09-16T19:56:40Z")
I’m not a checkerboard fan either. It’s a bad look.
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### Author:  [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6074 "2021-09-16T20:06:58Z")
It looks cheap and tacky
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### Author:  [@DOA\_heelflip\_540](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/DOA_heelflip_540)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6075 "2021-09-16T23:05:18Z")
Love some halfcabs, that’s the next shoe on my skate list but would it kill them to send some laces that actually lace all the way up, can’t tie loops with the ones I got
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### Author:  [@42069666](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/42069666)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/shoes/167/6076 "2021-09-17T07:45:56Z")
[https://www.instagram.com/p/CTTnFC-Lm-d/?utm\_medium=copy\_link](https://www.instagram.com/p/CTTnFC-Lm-d/?utm_medium=copy_link)
Not sure if I really like these new Orange Labels or not, but defo gonna grab some of the dunks or blazers. Think that potato canvas colour puts me off a wee bit but the blazers look great 100% as it’s just on the back. Also can’t tell if they’re leather or suede? But you’re supposed to dye em so I’m guessing it’s suede.
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