What is a shoe last?
The term “last” used throughout our catalog refers, quite simply, to the wooden or heavy plastic form over which a shoe is constructed. Since few factories have the lasts and other equipment to make shoes wider than EE, we have had to develop the special equipment needed to make shoes in widths to EEEEEE. Our lasts all have the extra fullness wide feet require, but they vary a little to suit the particular type of shoes made on them.
