November 11, 2009 Bespoke Boom
I found this The Independent article very interesting. Maybe I should focus on High Heels only? Hmm.. (No. I won’t. But I will definately make some.)
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“A shoemaker's blog about shoemaking”
I found this The Independent article very interesting. Maybe I should focus on High Heels only? Hmm.. (No. I won’t. But I will definately make some.)
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JKRichard
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“Ms Groves’s creations, which involve measuring the feet and several fittings, cost from £1,600 to £2,500 a pair and take eight weeks to make.”
8 weeks?
Perhaps I’m missing something…but 8 weeks on a pair of women’s heels? Are they chemically tanning the leather themselves?
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koronya
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I will explain this personally to you. Things work differently in Europe.
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JKRichard
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…is this perhaps where Americans live to work, and Europeans work to live? Meaning my fellow countrymen (and, I admit sometimes myself) value money above all and always ‘want it now?’
-Jeff