Richard Clark, owner of Advanced Shoe Repair, 6564 E. 'It's probably a little bit of both,' Woods said. But he noted that's also about the same time he moved six blocks east to be near a busy intersection. Harry, said his business has doubled over the past few months. Keith Woods, owner of Jack Smith Shoe Repair, 3114 E.

21st St.Īfter watching 'throwaways eat up the market' for years, Johnson said it's good to be busier. 'I'm seeing a lot of new customers looking to extend the life of their shoes,' said Charlie Johnson, owner of Sam's Shoe Repair, 1408 W. Nothing outlandish, but an increase nonetheless. 'When you can get a pair of shoes fixed for $30 to $40 instead of buying a new pair for $150, it's not hard to figure it out.'Īll of Wichita's shoe repair shops are seeing an increase in work. 'Work has been picking up the last eight, 10 months,' said Roger Rollman, owner of Cowboy Boot Shop, 9434 W. While she has been a regular customer of shoe repair shops for years, Reynolds is increasingly being joined by others who had never stepped foot inside those businesses.

'You don't just throw things out if they can be fixed,' Reynolds said. But she knew they were high quality, so she took them to Wichita's Jack Smith Shoe Repair. Shoe repair shops do well in difficult timesĪ few years ago an elderly man gave Hallie Reynolds' husband a pair ofshoes.

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