I understand that they are individually handmade by an artisan toiling in a hilltop village above Florence. The man is a hero there. It's an event when he completes a pair of shoes. They ring the cathedral bell and the whole town celebrates. /s
-—made in a hilltop village above Florence: Going out on a limb and guessing that’s how they USED to be made. The Italians’ big complaint now is that the chicoms came in, bought samples of all the Roman Empire’s good stuff, copy it in china, then bring it back to Italy to peddle it.
When the bell rings now it’s chairman XI giving a pair to his boy SloJoe. I’ts probly now spelled something like “chicompanile.” And packing the high brow stuff home is Humper’s job. Wouldn’t it be cool to hear one of our presstitutes ask SloJoe where he got the shoes? And the old guy in Florence can’t pay his rent anymore?