About Sunayla

Daylight and moonlight. The loud half of a woman and the quiet one. Most of us are carrying both around by Tuesday lunchtime, and are asked more or less constantly to pick a side. Our answer runs to two words. Wear both.

Kathy, briefly

A woman named Kathy started this shop. That is the whole of the founder biography on offer, and the brevity is deliberate: what she was reacting to is a great deal more interesting than where she grew up.

Read how women with broad feet talk among themselves for an hour and one phrase keeps surfacing: chronically underdressed. Not for want of taste. The outfit holds together beautifully until it reaches the ankles, and there it gives way to whatever was survivable that morning. Gorgeous boots that have clamped down by noon. Kind, roomy boots that look issued rather than chosen. Sunayla is young and has earned none of those complaints. They are simply the brief we work from.

What we hold to

1. The artwork is the entire point. Every design is released as an Edition with a name of its own, illustrated rather than assembled out of search terms, and carried around the whole boot instead of perched on one panel like a badge.
2. What sits in the photograph is what lands in the box. Colour is matched against the shot you looked at. If a pair ever arrives looking like a different design, we want to hear about it that day.
3. Room precisely where a foot wants room. Wide is graded off the same form, not a larger boot: same length, same height over the toes, and thirteen millimetres more girth at the ball, the middle and the rise. Sizing up only buys length you did not need.
4. Sizing gets talked through, never guessed at. Describe your foot to us before you buy and we will name the size and the fit to order. Nobody here will tell an entire mailing list to go up one and hope.
5. Nothing is made before you ask for it. Yours gets printed, cut and put together because somebody ordered it. That is slower. It is also why no size on this site ever runs out on you.

And three things you will not find: a permanent sale, one star rating stretched across the whole catalogue, or a claim we cannot put a document behind.

How the shop runs

• US 4.5 up to US 14, halves included, and every one of those lengths comes in Standard or in Wide.
• Five to ten business days of making, then the road. The arithmetic per country is on Shipping & Delivery, laid out before you pay rather than after.
• One size swap on every order, within thirty days of delivery. Add Return & Exchange Protection and we carry the shipping on that swap; leave it off and the swap is still yours, the shipping simply is not. The whole of it is written down on Return & Refund.
• A human reads the mail. cs@sunayla.com, answered inside one business day as a rule, Monday to Friday.

Wear both

Sun and moon in one name, and in one pair. Art on your feet, cut to a shape your feet recognise, with the fit conversation happening before the money changes hands instead of afterwards.

Have a look at what is open: every Edition currently in the shop. Not sure which line to order? Start at the size chart, or send a note to cs@sunayla.com describing your foot. We would far rather answer that question now than process an exchange in three weeks.

Wear both.