Vegan shoe store, Nice Shoes, set to open in Vancouver

by Stephen Hui on Feb 15, 2011 at 8:12 pm
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Novacas is one of the vegan footwear brands that Nice Shoes plans to carry.

Vancouver shoppers will soon have the chance to try a vegan shoe store on for size.

See also

Edible Flours prepares to open Vancouver’s first vegan retail bakery

When Nice Shoes opens on March 1, it will be the first “cruelty-free” footwear shop in the city.

The 600-square-foot store, which will be located at 3568 Fraser Street (at East 20th Avenue), plans to sell ethical products that are friendly to animals, the environment, and workers.

In addition to casual and dress footwear, Nice Shoes will carry belts, handbags, and other fashion accessories—all free of leather and other animal products.

Vancouver isn’t the only B.C. city set to get a vegan shoe store in the next few months.

In April, Vshoen plans to open in downtown Victoria.

New Westminster’s Karmavore Vegan Shop (610 Columbia Street), which opened in July 2009, already stocks cruelty-free shoes.

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Sven Crawson
Feb 16, 2011 at 12:28 am
Vegan shoes? Does that mean the shoes don't eat meat?
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Atalanta
Feb 16, 2011 at 6:40 am
Don't be an idiot. If you don't know about the animal cruelty issues involved in leather production, then I suggest you learn about them.
You could watch the movie Earthlings, which is available free online, incidentally. http://www.earthlings.com/
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Feb 16, 2011 at 7:29 am
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idiot.
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Morgan
Feb 16, 2011 at 8:47 am
Hurrah! This is great news! Really looking forward to checking out this store.
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Halv
Feb 16, 2011 at 10:34 am
Vancouver is fast becoming Canada's coolest city!!!
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Linda
Feb 16, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Plastic shoes are somehow better for planet? If the shoes break do you have to open windows for 15 minutes and wear gloves before handling as with CFL bulbs?
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ducksrock
Feb 16, 2011 at 6:25 pm
The pair of shoes in the photo is PVC free. I don't know why people think non-leather = plastic.

Leather tanning is one of the most toxic industries. Children in 3rd world countries are forced to walk waist deep in the chemicals while working long hours at the tanneries. All this so that people in the first world can wear leather and outsource the pollution and high risk labour elsewhere.
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Sven Crawson
Feb 16, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Jeez, you vegans have no sense of humor. Have a hamburger, you won't be so cranky.
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Flo
Feb 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Way to go towards making Vancouver one (if not THE) most eco-friendly metropolis in North America!
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Fan'o Truth
Feb 17, 2011 at 8:19 am
What materials ARE used in the manufacture of these shoes? THe article says nothing about that.
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Linda
Feb 17, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Plastic without PVC is still plastic, or the "the excrement of petroleum," to quote Norman Mailer. Footwear can be fabric and rope, but Nice Shoes' site indicates no preference for those materials, the design they necessitate, nor anything at all about manufacturers. Nothing there than a bunch of "Nice" ideas. So, yes, minimize animal suffering by wearing synthetic, non-breathing, non-repairable shoes, but please do not promote it as a solution for anything more than guilt-free consumerism.
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ducksrock
Feb 18, 2011 at 6:10 am
The amount of petroleum products used in the transportation, feeding, slaughtering and processing of one cow (or even just one pound of that cow) out numbers the petroleum products used in one pair of synthetic shoes by many folds. And as mentioned earlier, extremely toxic chemicals (out sourced to 3rd world countries) are used for tanning.

Do you feel guilt-free wearing your leather shoes?
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Fan'o Truth
Feb 18, 2011 at 5:52 pm
@DUCKSROCK
Do you feel guilt-free wearing your leather shoes?


Do you feel superior in your whatever shoes?
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Mia
Mar 6, 2011 at 2:37 am
@Fan'o Truth
How do you feel about yourself by wearing whatever shoes you're wearing yourself?
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Beherenow
Jun 17, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Can anyone from the store comment on what materials are used in the shoes? I'd be interested to know. Not all plastics are the same, nor petroleum products, and I'd rather avoid vinyl/PVC as well as leather, if possible.
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Pascal Labillois
Sep 22, 2011 at 5:49 pm
"Vegan" shoes is a hip term. It is an alternative to leather shoes for those who don't want to wear and walk in dead animal skin. Make your pick I say!
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Nice Shoes
Feb 17, 2012 at 12:05 pm
@beherenow the pair of red pumps are from Novacas. A brand that is animal, worker and eco friendly. According to their website "Our shoes never contain any PVC, which is often very toxic to the environment. Our materials do not contain any toxic products and, in case of fire, do not emit any toxic fumes. The materials we use are highly biodegradable. The uppers, whenever possible, are 100% biodegradable. The materials are produced in European factories known for using the highest environmental standards available in all of their manufacturing."
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Priyamvada
Mar 23, 2012 at 2:58 pm
I try to be a non judge-mental vegetarian & mind my own business but here you are again - STUPID people. "Hannibal Lecter" would love you - he only ate the "stupid ones"!!!
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