Goodyear Welted vs Blake Stitched Construction Shoes

In this video I use both diagrams, a cut apart Allen Edmonds, and a de-constructed Florsheim Imperial to show in detail the difference between a Goodyear Welted and Blake Stitched men's dress shoe construction. Goodyear Welting and Blake Stitching are the 2 most common and basic methods of constructing a high quality men's dress shoe. In the past I have done 2 other popular videos on this subject, but in comparison the production quality of them is quite poor. In addition, although before I did a good job of showing how the sole is attached to the Goodyear Welt, I feel that I did a poor job before of showing how the Welt is attached to the shoe upper.

FYI, that cloth strip glued to the insole is called “gemming”.

Here are links to previous videos:
"Shoe Construction: Goodyear Welted Shown"
   • Shoe construction: Goodyear Welted shown  

"Shoe construction differences - Bonded, Blake Stitched, & Goodyear Welted"
   • Shoe construction differences - Bonde...  

Music Credit: YouTube free Audio - "Hello Mr Princeton" by Otis McDonald