Was there a bygone age when the most resilient shoe repairs were performed by craftsmen seated high in the branches of a tree? Is that what they're harking back to?
I'm pretty sure they don't have access to that level of classy punning, but I'm going to have to go in for a chat to make sure now. My friend Neil told me he bought a pair of shoelaces in there for £2.75 and when he queried the price, the man said, "Well, you do get two for that." Neil didn't think he was joking.
Well I lose mine so often that I can't afford to limit my purchases to a single major European city like you. We do have James Smith and Sons here, just around the corner from the British Museum but, much as I feel a sense of natural entitlement to a £145 city umbrella with whangee cane crook, funds do not currently etc. Such a beautiful shop, with its original frontage and workshops too. I can't see the pics in the post you're linking to but, as always, I get the point!
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YES!!!!! Shoe trees!
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Is that a fake studio rock you're posing on?
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