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1967 | MORLACCHI | PARABIAGO, MILAN
1967 | MORLACCHI Parabiago, Milan Source: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazine1967 | MORLACCHI Parabiago, Milan Source: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazineMORLACCHIPARABIAGO, MILANI N D E X 1967 |...
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LUCIO MASTRONARDI (1930 - 1979)
Lucio MastronardiIl Maestro Di Vigevano (1962)Ricordare Lucio Mastronardi oggi vuol dire riconoscere in tutto il suo valore l’arricchimento che la letteratura italiana ha ricevuto, in un breve volgere...
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1963 | LAILA | S. VITTORE OLONA, MILAN
1963 | LailaS. Vittore Olona, Milan1963 | LailaS. Vittore Olona, MilanSource: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazine1963 | LailaS. Vittore Olona, MilanSource: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazine1963 |...
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1963 | VITTORIOSA | LEGNANO, MILAN
1963 | Vittoriosa by Lomazzi & C.Legnano, MilanSource: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazine1963 | Vittoriosa by Lomazzi & C.Legnano, MilanSource: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazine1963 |...
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1963/1964 | MORLACCHI | PARABIAGO
1964 | MORLACCHI Parabiago, MilanSource: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazine1963 | MORLACCHI Parabiago, MilanSource: Calzature Italiane di Lusso magazineMORLACCHIPARABIAGO, MILANI N D E X1963 |...
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HUARACHES? ASK JOHN FANTE
Those shoes, they were huaraches, the leather thongs wrapped several times around her ankles. They were desperately ragged huaraches; the woven leather had become unravelled. When I saw them I was very...
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SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE SHOE STORES | FEAT. DOUGLAS ADAMS
Hahn Shoe store Washington DCDesigned by Ketchun, Gina & SharpSource: NY TimesMany years ago this was a thriving, happy planet - people, cities, shops, a normal world. Except that on the high...
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OF TWO-TONE SHOES & BOOTS | FEAT. CHARLES WILLEFORD
Sneakers - Self titled (Mercury, 1980)Source: DiscogsBurke studied the ground, rubbing his freshly shaven chin. He was in his middle forties, and he wore his pale, yellow hair much too long. He paid...
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OXFORDS ARE FOR SQUARES (MISSION DISTRICT'S FOOTWEAR) | FEAT. PETER PLATE
He wouldn’t leave it alone. “I hate him. Look at his damn shoes.”The cop had on nondescript black oxfords, footwear for squares. Oxfords were an insult to anyone with decent taste. They represented...
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JUST GOOD, CLEAN, HONEST FOOTBALL | FEAT. DAVID PEACE
No blue suits. No dossiers. No bingo and no bowls. No ritual walks around the traffic lights or lucky routes to this bench in the dug-out. No envelopes full of cash. No gamesmanship or cheating – Just...
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WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES | FEAT. HENNING MANKELL
… a story about dignity.During the long and difficult civil war that ravaged Mozambique - from the early 1980s until 1992 - I made a journey to the Cabo Delgado province in the north. One day in...
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1899 | Not How Cheap But How GoodCommon sense from WAHR & MILLER (Ann Arbor - Home Of The Stooges)Source: Old News (Ann Arbor, Michigan)1926 | ANDRE' PERUGIA & I.MILLERTHE EUCLID GEOMETRIC...
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THE PRODIGIOUS SHOEMAKER BY JOSE SARAMAGO
His name was Francisco Carreira and he was a shoemaker. His shop was a small, dark, windowless room, with a low door through which only children could enter without bending down, because it must have...
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BROWN SHOES DON'T MAKE IT SAID INSPECTOR REBUS | FEAT. IAN RANKIN
He was sitting in the interview room, and he was nervous. Rebus stood against one wall, arms folded, examining the scuffed toes of his black Dr Martens shoes. He’d only bought them three weeks ago....
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JOHNNY ANGELO'S BLUE SUEDE SHOES | FEAT. NIK COHN
1956 | Carl PerkinsDance Album Of Carl Perkins (SUN)With all his peacockery, his implied narcissism, he (ELVIS) was also a major pose-maker for boys. A lot of the time he sang conventional romantic...
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SNEAKERS’ LAW EXPLAINED BY GEORGE V. HIGGINS
8-BitSneakers (3X File, Kick It Recordings, 2010)All text from “Bomber’s Law” by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt & Company, 1993)The unusual man also tried to walk with the loose-jointed gait that...
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IT TAKES TIME TO BUY SHOES | FEAT. ELMORE LEONARD
“He bought a suit?” Palenzuela said.“Only the coat, a black one.”“Expensive?”“I believe alpaca.”“Where did he go for the boots?”“Naranjo y Vazquez.”“They’re all right, but not the best.”“He removed his...
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HEY, IT’S JOE SOUTH GODDAMMIT | FEAT. GEORGE PELECANOS
I finished shaving and undid my tie, switching from an Italian print to a wine and olive rep. I changed my side buckle shoes to a relatively more conservative pair of black oxfords that had thin steel...
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ABARCAS? EXACTLY, MY DEAR WATSON | FEAT. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The perones, or raw-leather shoes being called Abarcas, in Spanish, some imagine that the young prince (Don Sancho II) derived his appellation from that part of his dress. Others pretend that it was...
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ALPARGATAS NO, BOOK YES | FEAT. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Como Hacer AlpargatasSource: Como HacerThe military government was not the only target of the students’ contempt: the opposition’s disdain and dislike were increasingly focusing on the working classes,...
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