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Shoes: How French Royalty Became the Fashion Police

Forever Ago

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How to Make Shoes for the Road

Jan would work ten hours a day at the shoe factory, and then he'd come home to study english. Jan's machine could do up to ven hundred shoes every day. It was so complicated that they didn't believe it wold actually work. So they set someone to visit jan and see his machine in action. Of course, it was a real deal. And suddenly good shoes weren't just for the rich. Regular people could afford them too.

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