Shoes: How French Royalty Became the Fashion Police
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Shoemaking, a Slow Process
jan matzallager was born in dutch guiana, the south american country that's now known as surri nama. He got a job at a shoe factory as an apprentice in massachusetts where the shoe business was booming. Shoes were still made mostly by hand and it took an hour to attach just five of them.
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