A few weeks ago the good people over at Urshuz sent a pair of their ‘Brax’ shoes our way to test out. Now, most people might ask why you would need to ‘test’ a shoe: but then again, most people have probably never experienced something like Urshuz.
Unlike traditional shoe design, where you have an upper permanently fastened to a sole, Urshuz features an interchangeable sole attached via a proprietary ‘looping’ system. The result is the ability to mix uppers of various colors & styles with various soles in nearly unlimited combinations.
We admit we had our reservations about how this system might function in daily use, but we have to say we found the shoe incredibly comfortable in every situation. Admittedly, the ‘some assembly required’ aspect of the shoe threw us off for a second (you have to fasted the sole to the upper yourself), but after a minute of playing around with it, the prospect of attaching & removing soles as you desire poses no problem.
Our Brax model featured a full-grain leather upper with hand-sewn toe panel, cutting a great silhouette & marrying well with the cork-toned soles they provided us with. We removed & reattached the soles several times & never experienced an issue with the system, in fact, we found the ability to remove the sole a huge benefit when packing these away for travel, since disassembled they take up a fraction of the space a traditional shoe would.
All in all, we loved the idea behind Urshuz, & were pleased to find that in practice the shoe is as comfortable & convenient as it in in theory. You can shop their entire collections of uppers & soles at Urshuz Online.
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