I know it is available, but I'm not sure exactly where. In needlepoint
shops everywhere, they have painted canvases which can be made into
slippers or shoes after being worked. I suspect that it's a matter of
finding a cobbler who does more than just replacing heels and soles. I
just did a web search on "shoe cobbling" and came up with a number of
sites that mention learning to make shoes. So custom shoes can be made
if one can just find the shoemaker!
Clay
On 3/2/2012 5:05 PM, Adele Shaak wrote:
Hi Clay and everybody else:
Some years ago a woman from Singapore (I think) came to my needle arts guild and
brought her hand-embroidered shoes for Show 'n Tell. I thought they'd be like
Sherlock Holmes' persian slippers, but no, they were proper professionally made
leather-soled 2" heels. Where she came from a woman showed her embroidery skill
by embroidering fabric which she then took them to a shoe-making service that backed
the embroidery and then fashioned it into the upper part of the shoe. I think it was
kind of like making a trousseau - you weren't ready to be married until you'd
finished your shoes.
I'm wondering if that sort of service is available in North America, because I
think we could really start a fashion for making your own lace shoes, and not
just for weddings. Anybody know?
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
I was at a wedding last weekend where nearly all the young women were wearing those
atrocities (shoe style, not the lace!) and a few 40-something's with the "Demi Moore
Syndrome" were also staggering around in them. I know their feet will give them
serious problems way earlier than usual, but of course they only think of fashion, and
think they'll be young forever. The smarter ones had kicked off their shoes before
dinner started!
Clay
Have a look at this for a fashion statement.
http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069377511/
Brenda in Allhallows
www.brendapaternoster.co.uk
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