It’s a quality he may have inherited from his father, who turned a barn attached to the family’s property on the North Shore of Long Island into a workshop for home improvement projects. With time, it ...

Hand-decorated shoes created by members of the Krewe of Muses are among the most coveted parade throws in all of Carnival. Elaborately encrusted with glitter, costume jewels and toys, the shoes often ...

WANT. >> AMERICAN WORKERS SPEND AN AVERAGE OF 57% OF THE WORKDAY STANDING OR WALKING ACCORDING TO A 2020 BUREAU OF LABOR REPORT. WHAT BETTER BODY PART TO SPLURGE ON IT THAT HARD-WORKING FEET? >> A ...

The bespoke process begins with meticulous measurements of the client’s feet—including the circumference of the ball, instep, and arch—which serve as the blueprint for making a wood last. Using les, ...

A few months after sprinter John Mays joined the University of Oregon in the early 1970s, his track coach asked if he would be willing to test out a prototype pair of sprint shoes. The shoes’s ...

Michael James is one of the few remaining artisans in England who can turn a foot’s measurements into a wood carving, the model for handmade shoes. By Susanne Fowler LONDON — Before leather can be ...