The Read
5 Lessons to Learn About Pitching Your Business
9-minute read
Meet the Team: Laura, Operations Manager
5-minute read
Meet the Team: Laura, Operations Manager
Our seventh team member is 2,500 miles away from our head office. She's a mom, loves to travel, and used to be an English professor (and so helps us with our Spanish). Find out more about Laura...
Tall Boots for Tall Women
8-minute read
Tall Boots for Tall Women
Our 6'0" community manager, Caroline, shares her experience of growing up tall, searching for tall boots for tall women, and how Poppy Barley changed her life.
Urban English Riding Boots: Redesigning The Savannah Hill
3-minute read
Urban English Riding Boots: Redesigning The Savannah Hill
From western boots to English riding boots, we've done a redesign on The Savannah Hill Boot. In addition to color blocking options, here's what we changed...
Poppy Barley Makes Custom Cheerleading Boots for the NFL
5-minute read
Poppy Barley Makes Custom Cheerleading Boots for the NFL
At a special request, we made 86 pairs of custom cheerleading boots for two NFL cheerleading teams—the St. Louis Rams and the Oakland Raiderettes. Here's how it all went down.
Fort McMurray Pop-up Shop
1-minute read
Fort McMurray Pop-up Shop
FORT MCMURRAY // September 20th-22nd, 2013 Come shop Poppy Barley’s F/W ’13 Collection. We’ll have plenty of samples on hand for you to view, touch and swoon over, as well as iPads for you to play with so that you can select and customize your favourite styles, colour combinations and...
Working at a Startup After Graduation: Why You Should Do It
6-minute read
Working at a Startup After Graduation: Why You Should Do It
Before she was our Customer Insights Specialist, she was one of our first customers. Find out why (apart from finding perfectly fitted boots) Breanne decided to work at a startup after graduation.
Alberta Popup Sale: We're Going On Tour This September!
3-minute read
Alberta Popup Sale: We're Going On Tour This September!
Poppy Barley is popping up in your city! Come out to view the new F/W '13 collection in Calgary, Fort McMurray and Edmonton on these key September dates...
Meet the Team: Justine, Co-founder
3-minute read
Meet the Team: Justine, Co-founder
Despite her eye for design and her cool sense of style, Justine's background is a far cry from fashion and shoemaking (although, she did hope to be a fashion designer when she was little). Find out more about our co-founder...
The Results Are In: Here's What You Want In Perfect Rounded-Toe Ballet Flats
3-minute read
The Results Are In: Here's What You Want In Perfect Rounded-Toe Ballet Flats
Your survey answers were more than insightful—and made us realize that we were about to make the wrong decisions about a few design elements...
Meet the Team: Daelan, Developer
2-minute read
Meet the Team: Daelan, Developer
Although that's his technical job title at Poppy Barley, he's also our in-house photographer, videographer, comedian, musician-DJ extraordinaire (he really was a '90s DJ), and video-game maker. Get to know the guy behind our website.
#PBWorthWalking: See Who's Entered to Win Custom Shoes
1-minute read
