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A Wallabee-style suede boot from one of Italy's oldest bootmakers, the Beenflex XLC from Astorflex takes that classic moccasin silhouette and plants it on a tough commando rubber sole. The suede leather upper is lined in vegetable-tanned calf leather – the kind that softens and moulds to your foot over time – and there's a memory foam footbed for comfort straight out of the box. For the avoidance of doubt, these boots are emphatically not mass-market jobs – they're handmade in Castel d'Ario, near Mantova, where the Travenzoli family have been making shoes for seven generations.
| EU | UK | US | JP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 5 | 6 | 24cm |
| 40 | 6 | 7 | 25cm |
| 41 | 7 | 8 | 26cm |
| 42 | 8 | 9 | 27cm |
| 43 | 9 | 10 | 28cm |
| 44 | 10 | 11 | 29cm |
| 45 | 11 | 12 | 30cm |
| 46 | 12 | 13 | 31cm |
Suede uppers require a different cleaning approach than leather uppers.
Quietly beavering away in the small town of Castel d'Ario since 1820, Astorflex is one of Italy's oldest shoemakers – and still very much a family affair. CEO Fabio Travenzoli is the sixth generation of his family to run the factory, and he’s already training up his son, Guilio, to take over the reins one day.
Using carefully selected leathers, craftsmanship comes front and centre here – and every last boot or shoe is made in-house from the very best natural materials. The calf leather linings and insoles are vegetable-tanned without harsh chemicals, the soles are mostly natural rubber, and even the adhesives they use are water-based throughout. After the First World War, the company adopted the ‘ideal’ method of constructing shoes – a skilled stitching process that takes a little longer but makes for a drastically more durable boot.
The result is footwear that’s soft, flexible and moulds to your feet over time – classic shapes like desert boots, chukkas and hikers that’ll go wherever your feet take you. From street-corner cafés to the mountains and savannahs, this level of quality is generations in the making.
