Introducing Mantorii Custom Footwear – Affordable Custom Shoes

My Mantorii Shoe – an Oxford Cap Toe (also featured on Mantorii’s website!)

Sometimes there are new companies that really excite me. Needless to say Indochino is one of those, so are ProperSuit, Black Lapel and a few others. I was recently introduced to a newcomer that immediately caught my attention.

Let me introduce Mantorii Custom Footwear. Mantorii is the brainchild of Aron, a sartorially inclined Hungarian Stanford graduate, who spent years working for a big multinational before founding his own company in Asia, doing sourcing, consulting and factory audits. Aron has always had a deep love for shoes and had been sending around shoes from his favourite shoemaker in Vietnam to friends around the world for quite a while. Not long ago he decided to use his previous work experience and take the business online: Mantorii Custom Footwear is the result.
I was wondering when the first company would introduce custom shoes online. Indochino started with suits, it was only a matter of time for someone to do shoes as well. I actually expect Indochino to enter the market very soon and there are probably more too follow.

Aron was so kind to offer me a pair of shoes for a review, it was an opportunity I could not resist. I’ve been lusting for a pair of custom shoes for a while. Not because I have unusual feet, but because I like the idea of having made something just for me. Not something that 1000 of others have as well. Also, I just like the whole online custom idea. It kind of brings back former times, when all garments were handmade for the customer. So far, I was only stopped by the price point, but Mantorii is actually affordable. Their shoes start at $299 including free worldwide shipping, you can get free remakes and full refunds (and for readers of my blog, it will get even better – more about that later).

Mantorii Shoe Choices – pic from mantorii.tumblr.com

Next you choose your leather. The guys from Mantorii know how much a good leather matters for a proper dress shoe, so they are directly sourcing from a variety of local leather tanners. When I ordered they had 5 kinds, reaching from different shades of brown to cream, and black. Soon Mantorii will also offer sustainable sourced, vegetable tanned full grain leathers for a little premium. I quite like that idea, in the meanwhile I also found the existing selection sufficient.  

Another great thing is that they are really open for custom requests. As they are working with a team of very experienced shoemakers, there is hardly anything they cannot do. According to Aron, as they are still a small company, they can work with each customer individually if needed. They only thing they won’t do are square toes – I can support that decision. 

I received my shoe a while ago and have it in heavy rotation at the moment. I will publish the actual review early next week, let me just say that I was not disappointed. Quite the contrary.

Update: Something I almost forgot. Their turnaround time is pretty quick for a custom shoe – it will get delivered to your doorstep within 4 weeks.

But wait, there is more:
I didn’t just want to get a free pair of shoes and write about it on the blog. I managed to convince Aron that readers of this blog expect something special. He agreed to do a special promo and give out 5 coupons worth $100 each. This means a custom shoe will actually only cost you $199, awesome deal. All you need to do is comment here on the blog and become a fan of Mantorii on Facebook or Twitter. Aron will be monitoring the comments and give out the coupons. For any questions, you can just email them directly at info@mantorii.com or ask in the comments here.

Update: The offer has been extended to all commenters on this thread! Read the comment from Mantorii in the comment section. All you need to do is write them an email at info@mantorii.com and they will hook you up with a coupon code.


Last Update: All coupons have now been given away.