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Jeffery West The Official page for Jeffery~West the infamous British Footwear Brand.
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Born and bred in Northampton, the historical centre of the British shoemaking and leather industries, childhood friends Mark Jeffery and Guy West were surrounded by tradition and history from the word go, even more so for Jeffery as his father ran the family owned shoe factory in the town. Perhaps not a surprise therefore that they would go on to become shoe designers, but the fact that they began

their first business as 16 year olds, designing and selling their own shoes at markets in Northamptonshire and also at Kensington Market in London, shows remarkable prescience and motivation. At first, as Guy West explains, “Mark and I would buy rejects and ends of lines from his dad’s factory and other factories, customise them and sell them on.”

They quickly moved on to having their own designs made up but, as West says, “because we were so young nobody would take us seriously” to this end they had to approach a friend who worked as leather buyer in a local shoe factory to source and buy the leather for them. In a shed at the hotel which West’s parents ran, the duo installed a clicking bench and “we paid a chap who would finish work at a shoe factory” says West, “and then come over to us in the evening and he’d hand cut all the patterns and do all the clicking on our shoes.” They would then take the patterns to a closing room in Northampton, closing, as West explains, “is when you stitch all the uppers together”, before taking the uppers and soles to a factory to be made up into finished shoes, which they would then take back to West’s parent’s hotel to pack into boxes and cartons. Already set fare for a career in shoes, the sudden death of Jeffery’s dad and subsequent loss of the factory, sadly ruling out Jeffery being able to take over the family firm, motivated the two friends to take their fledgling business to another level in 1987 with the founding of Jeffery~West, for which their close and early involvement with every stage of the manufacturing process during the previous four years, an apprenticeship by default, stood them in very good stead. Their industriousness continued as they created a 12-piece Jeffery~West sample range and approached prospective retailers before approaching a potential bank manager who, as West says, “sympathetically said that he would give us a try” and explains further that because he and Jeffery were only in the early twenties for the bank “it was quite a gamble because at the time there was absolutely nobody in the industry as young as us.”

“A cocktail is what I’m longing for…Club Montepulciano is what you need”THE ‘CLUB MONTEPULCIANO’Winter Sky Blue Handcuff...
12/06/2026

“A cocktail is what I’m longing for…Club Montepulciano is what you need”

THE ‘CLUB MONTEPULCIANO’

Winter Sky Blue Handcuff Suede Loafer

08/06/2026

‘CLUB MONTEPULCIANO’

The Jeffery~West handcuff loafer.

Available for purchase in-store and online.

THE FINAL CURTAINCB X JWLast chance to place your order. Ends Midnight Tonight!📸
05/06/2026

THE FINAL CURTAIN

CB X JW

Last chance to place your order. Ends Midnight Tonight!

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03/06/2026
INTO THE FINAL SPRINT OF THE ‘RUN RUN RUN’…DING, DING, DING! LAST ORDERS! CB X JW📸:
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INTO THE FINAL SPRINT OF THE ‘RUN RUN RUN’…

DING, DING, DING! LAST ORDERS!

CB X JW

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22/05/2026

CARL BARÂT x JEFFERY-WEST

‘RUN RUN RUN’ Limited Edition Boot

Time Is Ticking - 🔔 Final Orders!

ALL ORDERS INCLUDE
A HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED ART PRINT OF CARL’S HANDWRITTEN LYRICS FOR ‘RUN RUN RUN’
AND A UNIQUE HAND PAINTED AND NUMBERED SHOE BOX

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RML GT HYPERCAR X JEFFERY-WEST BESPOKE CLUB MONTEPULCIANO LOAFERPerfectly matched to the individual specification of eac...
15/05/2026

RML GT HYPERCAR X JEFFERY-WEST BESPOKE CLUB MONTEPULCIANO LOAFER

Perfectly matched to the individual specification of each customers car.

“It’s the colour of the night”‘Mercury’ Handcuff Trim Apron Loafer on the ‘Anderson’ Last, in Spat Patent Blue.Also avai...
07/05/2026

“It’s the colour of the night”

‘Mercury’ Handcuff Trim Apron Loafer on the ‘Anderson’ Last, in Spat Patent Blue.
Also available in Black Polish, Spat Patent Wine, Spat Patent Green, Black Patent.

…what do you love about music?To begin with, everything.The ‘Almost Famous’ Western Boot in Vintage Brown Leather and Vi...
04/05/2026

…what do you love about music?

To begin with, everything.

The ‘Almost Famous’ Western Boot in Vintage Brown Leather and Vintage Black Suede.

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16 Piccadilly Arcade
London
SW1Y6NH

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+442074993360

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