Aldo

Brought a fabulous pair of boots in here this Sunday on my weekend away in Liverpool. I had spotted them in the window and fell instantly in love. Suede, flat ankle boots with bows on the back — absolutely gorgeous! The sales girl was so friendly and helpful and didn’t seem to mind me asking to try them on in different sizes and colours.
We had a thorough discussion on whether black or brown would be the preferred colour and I decided to be daring and go for the brown ones.
Aldo also gets extra points for having boxes with handles so no need for extra carrier bags. Shoe shopping and saving the planet in one go!

Aldo is a small shop which sells fashionable mens and womens footwear. You will not find high street brands here but you can find great quality footwear at moderate prices.
Staff are happy to assist whenever you require and do not cause any hindrance when you are browsing; I think this is good, as they just let you freely browse without being bothered.
Each time I walk into the shop, there are few customers there and people do seem mostly just browsing.
In terms of the layout of shoes, it is set out in an stylish manner which always catches the eye.
For me though, Aldo is an average shoe store.

Aldo specialises in fairly trendy men and women’s footwear and although I couldn’t find a favourite in terms of men’s formal shoes a few weeks ago, it’s targeted range of sandals and trainers do seem to represent pretty decent value for the product you are getting.
The staff are fairly laid back and let you browse at ease, they are unfortuantely let down by the competitors in the local walking area such as the likes of office, fred perry and jones the bootmaker, all of which offer named brands and sales that seem more enticing. However, Aldo soes represent a lot better value without the big logos and brands when needed.

Stylish
& sophisticated
shoes
boots
heels
flats
wedges
cut-​outs
sandals
handbags
& clutchbags

Like most women find it difficult to understand the appeal of international strongmen competitions, military history documentaries and fly fishing (actually I’m not too sure about that last one) most men completely fail to understand the appeal of dedicated shoe shopping. They will spend hours looking at luridly coloured limited edition trainers but when it comes to proper leather shoes they will shy away from looking — a cursory trip to the shoe rack of their favourite menswear shop or maybe a branch of Clark’s is about as much as they can handle. All that brown and black leather it does something to the eyes after a while, I swear.
So it’s hardly a surprise that I haven’t been able to get very excited by Aldo. Once inside this branch though I found myself impressed by the layout spacious and bright — a contrast to the usual dark narrow Aldo stores I’ve visited in the Trafford and Arndale Centres. The range of men’s shoes though did little to spark my already failing interests; the soft leather and narrow fit (a few too many winklepickers) were not really to my tastes. The prices were reasonable enough though (with a great pair of brown brogues for £70) and the staff were very friendly and helpful; offering to order in a size of shoe that they didn’t have with no obligation to buy them once they arrived in.
And women’s shoes are quite another matter — As I left I could see hordes of women frothing over heels, boots and handbags. Good luck to them I thought, I’m off to watch World’s Strongest Man.