It never occurred to me until I started researching this but there are loads of these C & D Shoes around. You'd never guess it if you see the shopfront, it's higgledy-piggledy scatter shot window display has everything from pliers to USB cables in a veritable smorgasbord of useful brick-a-brack. Just because they're a franchise doesn't mean they're heels though *ahem* franchisees have sole too :)
I imagine the cobbler is an endangered species no matter which way you cut it. In this modern era of cheap, fashionable shoes designed to last one weekend and be abandoned it's probable that many of us haven't ever had a shoe repaired.
If you do have an precious pair of favourites you can't imagine parting with, then don't. C & D Shoes can do wonders loosening tight shoes, tightening loose shoes, lowering high-heels and, quite probably, highering low-heels. read more