The heady aroma of shoe polish and tobacco wafts out the door of J&B Boot and Shoe Repair, a strip-mall throwback to the days when you could find a cobbler on almost every corner. Like those old ...

After several months of traipsing through dingy slush and teetering precariously across unshoveled Denver sidewalks, my thermal Blundstone Chelsea boots look wrecked. And at nearly $250/pair, I bought ...

All too often, these shoes can still be mended,” said the 57-year-old, who learned the craft at his father’s elbow while in primary school. The second-generation cobbler explained how his ...

Cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe, Get it done by half-past two, Stitch it up and stitch it down, Then I'll walk around the town. Cobbler, cobbler mend my boot, Mend it well to fit my foot ...

That’s why I was thrilled to hear about The Cobblers, an online service that offers old-world shoe craftsmanship by mail. The Miami-based company has a team of master artisans with credits from ...