@eliasmatso

Settle in Girls, it’s story time🎼 . . I found these mens platforms from the 70s in a size 12 on EBay. They were clearly cracking and falling apart but I got the seller down to 20 plus shipping. I couldn’t resist given how hard it is to find mens shoes from this time for less than 400. I vowed to make them work. When they came in mail I immediately realized that there was no wearing these shoes as is since the leather was actually rotting and crumbing in front of me (giving black mold in the lining.) I took them to 3 different cobblers in hopes that they could restore or remake the leather upper. Two of them said it was impossible and one said he could find a guy to replicate the leather part for 800 dollars. I was bummed but not ready to give up. A week later I was given an open ended studio assignment for school in which we had to connect whatever we made to the research papers we had written, (mine was about sexism in Archie Comics in the 60s). I decided to use this oddly open ended project to validate working on the shoes. I already had rhinestones, paint, and an old pair of shitty asos high tops so between the leather scraps, glue, grommets and the original heels, the project cost less than 70 dollars! Here is the result. 👞👢 . . Note: to anyone baffled why I would spend upwards of 40 hours fixing these shoes, all I can say is that I basically never get to have shoes I actually like because of the size of my feet. This is me trying to defeat that limitation. 👺👺👺