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Dress shoes in Taipei, Taiwan -Oringo shoes, Nakayama head office

Ingenuity (神匠) and Oringo (林果良品) are popular shoe bland in Taiwan. Ingenuity shoes are sold in a part of asian country, but Oringo shoes are sold in only Taiwan. The line up of Oringo shoes are ready made shoes and bespoke shoes. I wonder the technique of shoe making, so I went to the head office of Oringo in Taipei.

The location of the head office Nakayama of Oringo

It is 2 minutes on foot from Shuanglian station.
The apparence of the shop is like a cafe. This is Olingo shop.

The history of Oringo shoes

In 1976, the shoe industry in Taiwan was on the golden age. In this time, taiwanese shoemakers went to Japan, learned the shoemaking technique, and take the technique back home. However, then Taiwanese shoe industry traced the path of decline, and many shoemakers lost own job. Therefore, the founder of Oringo got back the time, and wanted to rework craftmans with advanced technology again, so he set up this brand in 2006.（from pamphlet and HP of Oringo）

Therefore, Oringo shoes is packed with high technique of shoemaking, and have unique desigh.

The shoes of Oringo

Shoes lineup are Darby, Oxford, Loafer, Side Elastic, and Side gore boots and so on, so there are basic type of shoes. The quality of leather divided two types. One is a low quality line (TWD4,000) and the other one is a high quality line (TWD6,000). I think a low quality line like Regalshoes in Japan, and a high quality line like Joseph Cheaney's shoes, but both lines is a high cost performance shoes. There are various desigh shoes, for example gillie shoes and combination shoes.

The method of Oringo shoemaking is probably the combination cemented proccess and mckay (Blake construction) proccess. The stitch in welt is gimmick, but the stitch in sole is real, this stitch penetrates to insole, so the durability is good.

As described above, Oringo shoes is high quallity and good cost performance, but also the clerk is very friendly,