Can anyone tell me why you can't buy Elefanten shoes in this country any more? (and how to get hold of them now?)

[Miaou]

Love Elefanten shoes. Our dds had them as tots (when we could buy them at the local shop ). Ds is now ready for his first pair and we wanted to get him some - but it appears to be just about impossible to get any!!

Can't you get them in Frasers or John Lewis?

I think our JL still sells this make.

Hmm, I don't know ... it's years since I've ventured down far enough to go near such a shop . And from here we are limited to what we can find out on the internet.

Would love to know if it's possible; I would send an MNer the money to get some for me!

oooh really Fimbo? I might have to make some phonecalls then ...

Have just found this;-

Umi is a new brand being manufactured in Germany out of the Elefanten factories. Many styles have been based on the original Elefanten brand featuring bright colours, high quality leathers and new designer lokking images.

You can but they were bought out by another company and aren't quite the same .Independent stores sometimes do themhere for example

I will check the next time I'm in Glasgow.

You can buy the in our Charles Clinkards

that was the name I was looking for umi

• just rang Glasgow JL and they said that the UK branch went bust about a year ago!

Thanks for that lizs - the ones I really want are called Pioneer (fussy aren't I )

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Ring Stomp in Stirling, Miaou. They're fab.

some on ebay

Oooh thank you - will do some detective work!

Take i back Charles Clikard no longer stock, just checked. They've also stopped 'Buckle My Shoe' in fact looks like they realigned their stockist to be much more 'main stream' iykwim. shame really.

Clarkes have bought Elefanten, not sure what is going to happen re production and quality, so I'm moving brands until I am sure.

All our local independent shoe shops stopped stocking them due to the Clarkes buy out