Laura Pavlova: felt boots are the warmest and most comfortable winter shoes

In the cold winter, the best shoes may well be good old felt boots, which, despite their rich history, may well be fashionable, modern and unique, of author's work. Laura Pavlova has been making felt boots for several years. Laura Pavlova also decorated souvenir felt boots for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Belarus in 2010. Laura will tell the readers of mystylex.techinfus.com/en/ about the history and modernity of felt boots.

1.Why did you start working with felt boots? Why are felt boots interesting to you?

I started working on felt boots by accident. I dreamed of a creative profession, but could not even imagine that I would take up felt boots. These are the warmest and most comfortable winter shoes, but for me, and for most of my customers, I am sure they are more than just shoes. They have a soul. These are wonderful memories and great mood, warmth and comfort.

2. Tell us about yourself. Where did you study design? Are you doing or maybe doing any other design? From whom did you learn to work with felt boots?

She dreamed of becoming a designer, but graduated from BSEU. I was just very lucky that there was time, a desire and an opportunity to do what I liked and succeeded - to bring joy to people through felt boots. And most importantly, there was a person nearby who supported me and made me believe in myself and continues to do this constantly.

Last year I entered the Institute of Modern Knowledge (Institute of Modern Knowledge) in the specialty "Design of costume and fabrics" (full-time), but after studying for a couple of months, I decided that I was wasting my time. Therefore, I am engaged in self-education: painting, drawing, color science, composition ...

I don't design other things, and I haven't. I never learned how to work with felt boots. My teacher is experience with every new pair.

3. Who wears felt boots today? How are they convenient and attractive? Is it expensive to afford designer felt boots?

Valenki are different ...

Valenki-Lo are worn by kind people who value manual labor and individuality. And boots-Lo give them warmth, comfort, sincerity, joyful memories. And it's worth a lot!

4. Do modern felt boots differ from old ones? When did the first felt boots appear? And why were they remembered again? Are felt boots fashionable? Valenki - is it more ours, Slavic, or is there an interest in them in Europe too?

Valenki-Lo are traditional felt boots made of 100% wool, as natural and warm as felt boots created a thousand years ago. They say that the history of felt boots goes back two thousand years. Even Peter the Great himself advised "to put on boots on your bare feet and gulp a bowl of hot sour cabbage soup, if in the morning your head hurts from a hangover." In the Slavic expanses, felt boots were worn even under crinolines to a ceremonial dress. By the way, there are songs, ditties, and poems about boots. For example:

I believe that felt boots are out of fashion. They were and will be.

And the best alternative to felt boots for the conditions of our changeable winter has not been invented. These shoes made of natural felt are always comfortable - neither cold nor hot, both at 0? And at minus 20. They so well express a new social trend - the desire for everything natural.In addition, modern felt boots are devoid of the shortcomings of their predecessors: they are lightweight and comfortable to wear, and a sole has been added to them. But what makes them especially attractive today is that felt boots also perceive fashion.

5. Author's felt boots. What makes your felt boots so interesting? What can an author, a designer, bring to this very old element of winter wardrobe, how to diversify it?

Designer felt boots are a combination of millennial traditions, quality and contemporary design. And boots-Lo combine convenience and elegance, practicality and style.