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I’ve had Giesswein shoes for a while now and can’t recommend them highly enough. They manage to combine the comfort of sneakers and the warmth of boots (during winter months) while remaining light and airy (for the summer months).
I’ve owned a pair of house shoes / slippers from Giesswein. Good quality and comfy to wear, good stuff.
I love their slippers! Been wearing them around the house for years
The sneakers are fantastic as well, been wearing mine a lot for 3 years and still going strong. Also very easy to clean
If I remember correctly the last pair of shoes I bought from them were Made in China. And sadly my feet seem to have a weird shape, three pairs of shoes broke at the same position. My big toe sticks out a bit, so the top wore out after a few months.
The shoes themselves were extremely comfortable and looked very good. I got some compliments for them.
I only checked one model which was made in Austria, they probably have factories in both locations
Where did you find the manufacturing location on the product page? The only thing I can find is “Designed in Austria”.
Datasheet tab
Manufacturer: Giesswein Walkwaren AG, Niederfeldweg 5, 6230 Brixlegg, Austria, shop@giesswein.com
Ok, in my opinion Giesswein is very good at marketing. Lets look at my shoes, they are from 2022 or 2023. Assembled in Vietnam. In the meantime they stopped (some?) production in Austria¹. So it is very unlikely, that these shoes were made in Vietnam in 2022 and are produced in Austria nowadays. Sadly I don’t have the other shoes anymore, to look where they were made.
IF they were made in Austria today you can be very sure that they would advertise the shit out of it, but they don’t. You can only read very vague statements like “Designed in Austria” or the manufacturer on the shop page, but even on their about us page there is nothing like “some products made in Austria”. In older articles you can find out that some of the materials are made in Austria but assembly is done in China or Vietnam. But I couldn’t find current sources for this claim². Sorry for the german sources.
Edit: 130 people are working in Brixlegg/ Austria. In 2024 the remaining 35 positions in the production were cancelled, so no more production in Briggslegg³. The Shop pages all list Brixlegg as manufacturer, so without workers in the production, who is making the shoes in Brixlegg? How are they doing so many products with only 130 people? Endedit.
@everyone with Giesswein shoes, look under the inner sole and share with us where your shoes were made.
²https://alleantworten.de/wo-werden-giesswein-schuhe-hergestellt
Very interesting, thanks for sharing, I’ll edit the title
