/fa/ - Fashion

>>17248231
A real holdfast is made by carving out the leather around the channel and inside it. The welt is then stitched from the inside through the holdfast. This is the superior method of making footwear because there is no gemming to fail and come unglued. However it's very time consuming and done by hand
What Whites does is they just cut into the insole and stitch through the channel they cut. It's similar in that there is no gemming to fail or come unglued, but it's just a fast cut done by machine