1. The History of Tassels—Fitting Tassels Now Available on the Soft Star Website

    The History of Tassels—Fitting Tassels Now Available on the Soft Star Website

    Many of our fans may recall reading about our elves learning to make tassels at one of our staff playdays. Those tassels turned out to be a very nice product and have been sold on Etsy under the brand name Fitting ever since. We've now decided to sell these great tassels on our Soft Star website! Shop for Fitting Tassels...
  2. LITE Turquoise has Landed! New Leather Color for Soft Star RunAmocs

    LITE Turquoise has Landed! New Leather Color for Soft Star RunAmocs

    Elf Hava and Co-Owner Larkin stretch out our first hide of LITE Turquoise. You may recall that last fall we asked customers to vote on a new perforated leather color for our RunAmocs. It was a narrow race between LITE Turquoise and LITE Purple, but Turquoise took the lead in the end. Our first hide of the new leather arrived...
  3. Introducing Vegetable Tanned Leather!

    Beige and black vegetable tanned leather from Ecopell The Soft Star elves are excited to announce that we now offer vegetable tanned leather from Ecopell as an option for many of our design-your-own shoes! Ecopell is a German company that has been vegetable-tanning leather since 1992. While all of the natural leather used in the Soft Star workshop is formaldehyde-free...
  4. Vote for Your Favorite Boot Colors!

    Vote for Your Favorite Boot Colors!

    Photo courtesy of Rochelle in Wheaton, Illinois We hope everyone had a wonderful (and filling) Thanksgiving break! We've had a bustling boot-making season this year—possibly one of our busiest ever! Our cozy sheepskin boots are flying out the door as fast as we can sew them, and it's very fun for us to see the wonderful color combinations that our...
  5. Help Us Pick a New Leather Color

    Help Us Pick a New Leather Color

    As we look ahead to the 2014 season, we've decided to add another LITE (perforated) color to our leather collection. The leather elves, however, are torn between two colors and they'd like your help with the decision. The colors in question are LITE Turquoise and LITE Purple. Bear in mind, this perforated leather will only be used for our current...
  6. Fall Special: Don't Miss Our Corduroy Leather Merry Janes!

    Fall Special: Don't Miss Our Corduroy Leather Merry Janes!

    We have a special treat for you this fall. Tim has managed to add a unique material to our shoemaking supplies: chocolate corduroy leather! This soft, cozy material is not made of cotton like most corduroy, but actual suede leather pressed into a ribbed corduroy pattern. It still has the soft feel of suede with the durability of leather for...
  7. Chocolate is the New Brown

    Chocolate is the New Brown

    Fans of the LITE perforated leather we use for our RunAmocs will be pleased to hear that we have have replaced our LITE Brown color with our new LITE Chocolate! Moc3 in LITE Chocolate This new color is darker and richer than its predecessor. Best of all, it now matches our popular smooth or suede chocolate leather (a common request...

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