One of this year’s hottest trends won’t be found in your closet or your jewelry box, but on the bottoms of your shoes. Soles — yes, as in shoe soles — are this year's fashion frontier. From stickers ...

SALISBURY — When it came down to it, all Pat Weddington wanted was a hand-stitcher and a polisher to help with repairs he sometimes had to make to shoes he and his wife were selling on eBay.

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Repairing shoes may be a service that’s becoming a lost art, but Mt. Lookout Shoe Repair is still saving soles and keeping the feet of Tri-State customers warm and grounded. It’s a ...

WAYLAND – Originally opened in the 1920s, Baughs Shoe Repair in downtown Wayland is still being operated by Alan and Lois Baugh after taking the business over from his father in the 1970s. Alan’s dad ...

Jean Chamoun mastered the art of saving soles long ago and will settle for nothing less than perfection. “If I don’t do something good, I would feel sad,” said Chamoun, also known as “Mr. Shoe.” He ...

Mark Benson gripped the tops of a pair of leopard print heels, black shoe polish stains under his fingernails. He raised a gnarled heel below the frames of his oversized glasses, tilting it back and ...

We talked to two shoe artisans who have not only survived but at times have more business than they can handle: Greg Martens of Olde Town Cobbler in Wauwatosa and Bruce Cziske of Shoe Healers in ...

According to Vito Loiola, he has saved more soles than the Vatican. As impressive a metric as that may be in the shoe repair ...

Step into Michael Vallee’s tiny shop on North Main Street and be prepared to travel back in time to an era when the city supported a dozen cobblers and people didn’t discard a pair of shoes just ...

David and Virginia Pena stand close to each other, side-by-side behind the counter in their shoe repair shop. One gets the sense this is the way they have faced the challenges in their lives and their ...

ROCHESTER — After 104 years of saving Rochester’s soles, the legendary Boston Shoe and Boot Repair is ready to pack it in and close up shop. The mall location was a younger sibling of the original ...