A shoe salesman by the name of Makoto Tsuchiya created the Chacott company in 1951. Not long after World War II, there was a severe shortage of good pointe shoes in Japan. A well known Japanese ballerina asked Tsuchiya to create a pair of pointe shoes for her. After studying her European shoes, he decided to start his own pointe shoe company.

Chacott has become the largest dancewear manufacturer in the world. They have introduced machinery that accomplishes several major pointe shoe construction steps traditionally time consuming and done by hand. These machines have revolutionized the pointe shoe industry, and paved the way for others with pointe making ideas to come forward.

Their normal in stock shoes are available in B, C, D, and E widths. EE can be special ordered. Medium and hard insoles available in stock shoes. Soft and supersoft can be special ordered. Changes in vamp height, size, and back of the shoes can also be special ordered.