Een uitgebreide review en uitleg die zeker in het voordeel van Meermin spreekt:
http://brokeandbespoke.tumblr.com/Wat citaten:
There has been much speculation in the webosphere about the relationship between Carmina and Meermin, and the proprietor of Meermin, Pepe Albaladejo, clarified things for me a bit by saying both shoe businesses are run by members of the same family (not an uncommon trade for a Mallorcan family, as noted above), but design, production, etc., are fully separate between the two companies.
--------
One of the reasons Meermin is able to keep their prices down is that although all their shoes are started and finished in Mallorca, some shoes have a significant portion of their construction completed in China. Despite the knee-jerk reaction of many in #menswear that everything produced in China must, by definitional fiat, be of poor quality, I was assured by Pepe that the oversight of their Chinese production is tight, and that the Chinese men and women who work on Meermin shoes are now master shoemakers in their own right. If my shoes are anything to judge this claim by, I would say that Pepe is quite right.
-------
The Classic Collection uses Vegano calf, French calf from Tanneries Du Puy, English tannery Charles F. Stead’s Rapello suede, and French Karangrain and Nantes grain calf. The Linea Maestro line uses ultra-high quality hides like black Freudenberg calf from Weinheimer Leder tannery, Naturcalf from Anonnay Tannery in France, Januscalf suede from Charles F. Stead, Sacpa calf from Sacpa Tannery in Italy, and shell cordovan from Argentina (perhaps from ANCA, which is, to my knowledge, the Argentinian supplier for Tricker’s shell cordovan needs).
