For thousands of years, wooden shoes have been tightly attached to Viet people's life, you might see them everywhere, every family had them and everybody used them. They were used by both men and women. Wooden shoes were divided into live-wood shoes – the wooden shoes still wearing the colour of live wood, not painted or decorated, and flowered wooden shoes – finely painted and glossy wooden shoes, decorated with flowers and leaves, scenery, increasing the esthetic of the wooden shoes, and enhancing the young person's heels.

        After a long moment absent because of the appearance of  numerous articles of footwear in the market, in the recent period, wooden shoes have won back their resuscitation. But they are no more simply a tool to walk, they are "renovated" following new fashion trends, beautiful and impressive.

        The wooden shoes of Vietnamese people  have been gradually improved and become familiar with many categories of consumers in the society. Numerous forms and styles fitting to many different kinds of costume,  from the graceful traditional long tunic "ao dai" to the dusty appearance of the jeans in everyday life, from the refined and elegant aspect in offices to the luxury and nobleness of gala costumes while also present in moments people are frolicking on the sea-side and enjoying the sea.……

        Along with the more and more prolific renovation of this traditional product, are unceasing efforts to create of producers fond of their profession, from forms and styles to materials, and especially keen on the unceasing changing likings of consumers.

        Besides creations in types and styles bringing to consumers a slight, aerial and out of the common gait. An important factor contributing to bring about the aesthetic of the product is that the nowadays wooden shoes have many more decoration motifs on the sandal straps and sole with attractive patterns, together with the more and more refined and professional technologies of carving, mother-of-pearl incrustation, eggshell implantation ………

        The coming back of wooden shoes  expresses a new fashion vogue, both able to preserve tradition and modern, suitable to Vietnamese life.

        Continuing a family traditional craft from a remote past, starting its career in 1982, a small production enterprise of a household nature, as consequence of unavoidable law, to survive and develop  in the market, and integrate itself into the development trend of the economy, has changed itself into one of the  first rank companies in Vietnam specializing in the production and export of artistic handicraft wooden shoes. Officially established on 16 December 2002, Thanh Dung Production & Trading Company, Ltd. is the pioneering company in the renovation and introduction on world market of a product bearing deeply special features of Vietnam's traditional culture.

        With as logo "Arial gait", Thanh Dung unceasingly renovates and creates to bring to consumers the greatest convenience while using its wooden shoes.