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    Aug 15, 2020 3 minutes
    By PHOEBE MOGHAREI
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    BEGINNING SHOEMAKING

    Chicago School of Shoemaking and Leather Arts

    You don’t have to be an anticonsum-erist Marie Kondo type to want to make your own shoes (and if you are, well, a handmade pair certainly won’t hurt your cred). Master cobbler Sara McIntosh guides students in creating a pair of desert boots from scratch using techniques she has honed since deconstructing her own beat-up ones in 1974. She’s made over 10,000 custom pairs since. Over one weekend,

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