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Walking through age-old shoemaking store in HCM City

The shoe-making store of Trinh Ngoc was opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 1975, among the oldest of its kind still operating today.
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  • The store on Ly Chinh Thang street in District 2 of HCM City (Photo: VNA)

  • Ngoc’s workshop inside the store. The shoemaker himself has crafted shoes for many popular customers in Vietnam and overseas (Photo: VNA)

  • A custom-made foot mold at the workshop (Photo: VNA)

  • Ngoc draws a shoe design for his customer (Photo: VNA)

  • Fitting a paper on mold to make leather pieces (Photo: VNA)

  • Ngoc said the period of shaping the shoes is painstaking and requires high level of skills (Photo: VNA)

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  • Ngoc said he has to constantly update his sewing techniques to meet customers’ demand (Photo: VNA)

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  • Ngoc and his shoes (Photo: VNA)

  • A shoe made by Ngoc (Photo: VNA)

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