A simple arch that changed the business of shoemaking

May 14, 2012 12:32

Great read on Bloomberg on the shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo:

In 1907, Bonito, Italy, 9-year-old Salvatore Ferragamo could often be found intently watching the town cobbler tan leather skins, cut patterns, shape them around a wooden foot-shaped "last' and stitch the pieces together. This did not amuse his father: Respectable people did not make shoes. Then fate changed the story. More

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