shoe-makers

Now it is impossible that a single man working at a dozen crafts can do them all well; but in the great cities, owing to the wide demand for each particular thing, a single craft will suffice for a means of livelihood, and often enough even a single department of that; there are shoe-makers who will only make sandals for men and others only for women.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

This is the only place to make quality shoes, thanks to generations of shoe-makers passing their trade down.

Nicholas Kirkwood, British shoe designer, steps up to top role at Pollini Tom Kington 2010

And have upright men (continued Socrates) their distinctive and appropriate works like those of carpenters or shoe-makers?

Memorabilia 2007

Now it is impossible that a single man working at a dozen crafts can do them all well; but in the great cities, owing to the wide demand for each particular thing, a single craft will suffice for a means of livelihood, and often enough even a single department of that; there are shoe-makers who will only make sandals for men and others only for women.

Cyropaedia 2007

Here, the lace-sellers; there, the butter and egg-sellers; there, the fruit-sellers; there, the shoe-makers.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Some are brickmakers, some carpenters, some shoe-makers, some thatchers.

Wessex Tales 2006

“Dear me,” said I, “you have seen some of the most celebrated places in the world — and yet you were silent, and said nothing about your travels whilst that fellow Bos was pluming himself at having been at such places as Northampton and Worcester, the haunts of shoe-makers and pig-jobbers.”

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Last year, the combined production of Mexican shoe manufacturers reached 270 million pairs, only 20,000 pairs more than in 1999 as shoe-makers struggled to overcome declining export markets.

Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - April 2001 2001

Last year, the combined production of Mexican shoe manufacturers reached 270 million pairs, only 20,000 pairs more than in 1999 as shoe-makers struggled to overcome declining export markets.

Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - April 2001 2001

I am aware that in the north of England shoe-makers are still sometimes called _Snobs_; but the word is not in Brockett's _Glossary of North

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various