english shoemaker founded in 1890 . edward green is based in northampton england . the level of handwork involved in production is very high and only around 250 pairs of shoes are completed a week . during the 1930s edward green was one of the largest manufacturers of officers boots for the british army . their shoes have also been selected by such clients as the duke of windsor ernest hemingway and cole porter . edward green shoes are available from their own shops in jermyn street in london and on the boulevard st germain in paris as well as stores around the world such as double monk in melbourne isetan in japan matches in wimbledon village saks fifth avenue in new york city and unipair in seoul . history edit in 1890 edward green began to make hand crafted shoes for gentlemen in a small factory in northampton . the company was sold in 1977 by green s nephew to an american leather entrepreneur marley hodgson but financial problems continued and it was sold for a single british pound to another bespoke shoemaker john hlustik an expert at finishing who is often credited with making brown shoes acceptable to british gentlemen . upon hlustik s death in 2000 the company was willed to his partner hilary freeman . external links edit official website this product article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title edward green shoes & oldid 743720290 categories shoe companies of the united kingdomshoe brandscompanies based in northamptonmanufacturing companies established in 18901890 establishments in englandbrand name products stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskdeutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 21 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view