Feature about Allan Doherty, a shoe maker at Freed

[Jan McNulty]

This popped up on one of my Google searches:

 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/ballet-star-reveals-only-one-18794328

 

 

[Paleblueleotard]

What a lovely article and how fab that he makes his daughter's shoes!

[margarite]

My DD has triangle Freeds 😀. Thanks for sharing!

[Lucinda]

Oh wow, my DD has had custom made Freed's made by Triangle maker (Allan Doherty). She would dearly love to wear them again, they're her favourite but they're not allowed by her present company

 

[toursenlair]

23 hours ago, Lucinda said:

 they're not allowed by her present company

 

I've never heard of such a thing, a company banning a brand of pointe shoe.  What is their reason?

[Lucinda]

On 05/08/2019 at 21:42, toursenlair said:

I've never heard of such a thing, a company banning a brand of pointe shoe.  What is their reason?

They don't ban them, they just won't supply and pay for them. The only pointe shoes that the company will supply at no cost is Gaynor Mindens or Grishko. After paying for her pointe shoes when she was training, I was really looking forward to the day when a company would pay for them. 

Edited August 6, 2019 by Lucinda