{"id":3309,"date":"2010-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiebeaulac.com\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2010-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T00:00:00","slug":"etsy-purchase-vintage-italian-cut-out-sandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/etsy-purchase-vintage-italian-cut-out-sandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Etsy purchase: Vintage Italian Cut-Out Sandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I feel like I totally scored with these sandals that I purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/vintageshop11\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/vintageshop11');\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 They were a little more than I&#8217;d usually spend on a pair of vintage sandals, especially given that when you buy online it&#8217;s difficult to gauge softness, comfort, etc. but well&#8230; these are amazing.\u00a0 Made with thick yet buttery soft leather, they seem to never have been worn, they appear to be hand-stitched, and the Italian label on the inside (&#8221;Calzolaio del Borro Palaia&#8221;)\u00a0 translates to <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\"><span>&#8220;Shoemaker  in the Gully Palaia&#8221;.\u00a0 So I guess it&#8217;s safe to say that they were hand-made in  Palaia, Italy (which is in Tuscany) by some talented artisan, brought to America, and never worn.\u00a0 In a size 10, no less.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 My feet and I feel privileged.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not the greatest photos of the sandals- Milo was really trying to make this photoshoot about him rather than my new shoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sandals_copy_milo2.jpg\" title=\"sandals_copy_milo2.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sandals_copy_milo2.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sandals_copy_milo2.jpg\" title=\"Calzolaio del Borro Palaia, shoes, sandals, italian, vintage, cat, \u00aethelooksee\" alt=\"Calzolaio del Borro Palaia, shoes, sandals, italian, vintage, cat, \u00aethelooksee\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p1060947_copy.jpg\" title=\"p1060947_copy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p1060947_copy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p1060947_copy.jpg\" title=\"Calzolaio del Borro Palaia, shoes, sandals, italian, vintage, cat, \u00aethelooksee\" alt=\"Calzolaio del Borro Palaia, shoes, sandals, italian, vintage, cat, \u00aethelooksee\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I feel like I totally scored with these sandals that I purchased here.\u00a0 They were a little more than I&#8217;d usually spend on a pair of vintage sandals, especially given that when you buy online it&#8217;s difficult to gauge softness, comfort, etc. but well&#8230; these are amazing.\u00a0 Made with thick yet buttery soft leather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,6,7,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}