Final shoes from Benjamin Klemann in Hamburg. I have to say that I’m happy with the result. I have several pairs of bespoke shoes from the Warsaw shoemakers Kielman and Januszkiewicz. The shoes from Benjamin clearly comes from a more refined category of bespoke shoes. The fit is better, and to my eye the shape ...

A tight, apparrently perfect grip around my heels. That was my first impression, when slipping my feet into the trial shoes at Klemann’s. I walked around a little in the workshop, and we discussed the fit. It was difficult for me to come up with improvements, yet Benjamin wanted to tighten the shoes sligtly above ...

Klemann is a true family business. Benjamin Klemann looks after customers, he takes measurements, and he creates the lasts. His wife, Magrit, makes the uppers, and his two sons, Vincent and Lennert, master shoemakers like their father, are in the workshop, which includes four more shoemakers. Everything is made on the the premises at Poolstrasse 9 in Hamburg. It sets them apart ...

I have numerous bespoke shoes from the Warsaw shoemakers Tadeusz Januszkiewicz and Jan Kielman. The former has made me the better fitting shoes, whereas the latter has made me shoes with a perhaps slightly more flattering shape. Now I will test a new shoemaker: Benjamin Klemann in Hamburg, who according to my sources is the ...

Some years ago a reader directed me to a German sartorial forum, which now seems to have vanished. The forum was full of discussions about welted shoes. One participant called “Posh” was an authority on the matter. She – it was a she – defended handmade bespoke shoes intensively explaining the difference (attachments, sewing, materials, ...