Hi and welcome to my "70s vintage shop". My wife and I are getting older and plan on leaving "Good Old Germany" in a couple of years and consequently I am selling off a large part of our personal and inherited collections of furniture and clothing, including a mixed selection of mostly unworn men's platform shoes and boots which I inherited from one of my crazy uncles, a funky businessman who outfitted american soldiers stationed in Germany from the late 60s to the late 70s.

Most of the used vintage and deadstock shoes for sale might have particular storage issues, such as dried out glue holding the front leather-trimmed aged cork platform to the shoe, creases, storage scratches, small pits and/or wrinkles. 40-year-old leather is not always "fresh" and - although each pair I am selling has been stored in a box - you the buyer should be aware that wearing these vintage shoes is not always the same as wearing a new pair of shoes. The leather on a pair of vintage deadstocks may turn greyish or develop unsightly cracks after just one dance party, the platform might become disengaged (because the glue dried out decades ago), etc. Obviously I will point out the particular issues and remedies for each pair put up for sale but I generally suggest that buyers contact a local cobbler to have the front platforms re-glued and the leather thoroughly moisturized before wearing.

If you live in an area where it's too time-consuming or expensive to have the front platforms re-glued, my local cobbler will do this for an additional 40 €. He uses a german product called Kövulfix, which I believe is a type of neoprene glue. For 20 € he will also glue on thin rubber soles in a light or dark color.

All personal vintage items are generally priced to move (rare items, such as larger-sized men's platform shoes or vintage designer pieces, are much more expensive than smaller shoe sizes or ordinary pieces, for example) and when our household and collections are sold they are gone forever!