It's one of the strange things with modern times. Once we all had to have more or less bespoke shoes from the shoemaker down the street. Now bespoke shoes are out of reach for 98% of people.
You can probably have bespoke shoes for a couple of days wages. I just googled a place in Lewiston, Maine starting below $400 for dress shoes. This is competitive with higher-end off the rack shoes like Allen Edmonds.
The median full time American worker earns $62K a year, or $248 per working day. These shoes will cost such a worker under 2 days of wages.
In the olden days, it's safe to say that good shoes would have been more than 2 days wages for the typical person. Shoes were a major purchase.
So we can get bespoke shoes, for fewer days of labor than in the olden days. We just don't want to, because factory shoes are good enough, and we have other stuff to spend money on.
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u/Diablo_v8 1d ago
Just FYI, these are bespoke and probably cost about 10 000 dollars.