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Article: After Almost 40 Years of Footwear, Shoe Guru Plans to Step Out
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- The Washington Post
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- June 16, 2009
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Ron Scott is a born shoe man.
"I've trained every person who's ever worked for us," says Ron,
who founded the Gentlemen's Jodhpur shoe store in 1971 and will
close it this fall, the victim of an economy in which fewer men are
willing to spend $600 or more on a pair of shoes, even if those
shoes are made from the hide of a South American tejus lizard.
"We're down on one knee," Ron says of the Gentlemen's Jodhpur
way. "We don't sit on a stool. We're lacing up every shoe, telling
the customer how the shoe is made."
How it's made is usually by hand, to a design of Ron's creation.
Where it's made is usually Italy, out of some exotic hide: leather,
of course, but also alligator, ostrich, ...