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The importance of shoe repairers

I was talking on the phone with a friend last week, and joking that the Church's shoes I was about to wear to a formal dinner had been resoled a few times, and I had originally bought them in the 1970s. "Ridiculous" my colleague said, but she implied a certain respect for a pair of shoes that can command such loyalty. Certainly, my shoes are old and the leather lining is no longer complete but, properly polished, they still work for certain occasions and I have no intention of giving them up any time soon.