> You can go to Europe and have excellent custom made shoes for about 200 USD. Good lord, where? I'm aware of one place in... I want to say Romania? That can g

> You can go to Europe and have excellent custom made shoes for about 200 USD. Good lord, where? I'm aware of one place in... I want to say Romania? That can get you down to around $350 for custom shoes, which is about the same cost as middle-high quality stock shoes. Cheapest decent shoes I'm aware of that are available in the US are Spanish (Spanish company, Spanish designed & finished, but mostly manufactured in China) and start around $200, but that's not custom-made (and also you'll probably have to order them online, as I think they have one US store and it's in NY City, and few or no other stockists, last I checked). Most other options in the US are $300 and up (new—again, you can save a lot of money buying used on, say, Ebay, though at the cost of time). I doubt you could get anything custom fitted and made for under $500 in the US, and I'm not sure where you could go that would be that cheap, even. Europe does have more options for that than we do, it seems, but the prices are mostly similar AFAIK.