About Us
Scorpioshoes.com is a website selling fabulous fashion footwear from brilliant and unusual brands.
We aim to supply our style savvy customers with the latest trends in shoes, boots, trainers and sandals. Not only happy with that, we also offer prices that are fair and a friendly, professional and supportive customer service that is second to none.
Based in County Durham, North East England, Scorpio has been styling the feet of UK sub cultures and popular trend setters since 1960. The name Scorpio Shoes is locally synonymous with Dr Martens, as we have been supplying Dr Martens Boots and Shoes since our first shop opened.
Today Scorpio Shoes is popular with nearly all sub cultures of modern Britain, including goths, punks, skaters, indies, moshers, bohimes, skin heads, mods, rockers, ska, hippies, grungers, geeks, nerds, and burlesques. We also cater for popular mainstream fashionistas and Average Joes who just want dependable, no nonsense, great looking, day to day footwear.
At Scorpio our moto is...
NO SH!T!
JUST SHOES!
Now in our sixth decade of trading, Scorpio Shoes continues to operate from shops in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Durham City and Spennymoor. Our online store is now in its 3rd year and delivers to countries all over the world, with customers taking advantage of free delivery, 14 days returns policy, and our time served, exceptional customer service.
We carefully select our unique and individual styles from some of todays market leading brands, including Dr Martens, Converse, Vans, Iron Fist, Irregular Choice, TUK, Bronx, Grinders, New Rock, Rocket Dog, Blowfish, Yoma, Gucinari, Caterpillar, FitFlop, and many many more.
Our History
It's 1960, before Led Zeppelin, before Jonny Rotten and before The Beatles...
Scorpio is born.
With £40 in his pocket and fresh out of national service a young man by the name of Ken set off from his humble beginnings in North-east England on a journey across the country in his father's old banger. After being turned away from nearly every shoe manufacturer in Northamptonshire and ready to throw in the towel, he found himself in a large mahogany waiting room. With rows of important-looking portraits staring menacingly down upon him a large man with a huge smile on his face burst into the room and asked him what he wanted.
As theatrical as it sounded, Ken left the building, grinning from ear to ear as he'd just bought his first batch of shoes. From here in 1960 - the same year that Dr Martens launched the now famous 1460 boot - Scorpio came into being, opening a succession of retail stores across it's native North-east.
With a timely move into high fashion shoes with a difference, Scorpio dodged the recession
that hit the industry and gained popularity with alternative subcultures throughout
the 70's and 80's. Striving to promote self-
expression, Scorpio became
a hotbed for a long line of cultural renegades seeking to assert
their independence, uniqueness and individuality.
Almost 50 years on from that first day Scorpio has become a leading independent
fashion shoe retailer and was recently voted by The Guardian as
the best independent shoe store in the
North of England.
The Scorpio Shoes online shop has now launched
in order to expand Scorpio’s horizons and bring
its ethos & unique brand of fashion
footwear
to both you and the world.
