YouTube video by Kirby Allison about George Cleverley’s “twisted last”
Notes
- unique to Cleverley
- when set on a flat surface, the shoes rock from side to side
- heels pitch above the ground on the inside
- under weight, the heels flatten out
- senior lastmaker John Carnera
- fit the customer, but look “elegant and long”
- twist the bottom of the last
- still fits the foot
- looks narrower
- same volume over longer silhouette
- not all shoes with twisted last
- works for some feet
- asymmetric heels
- backseam isn’t perpendicular, but canted outward