Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it (Confucius).
While you are still dazzled by the beauty of the Basilica of Santa Caterina, a few more steps towards the clock and there, behind a shutter bitten by its 70 years, opens a book of Galatina history hidden there so as not to be recognized. Shutter half-lowered, a sharp perfume and smell that smells of the ancient, and that magically mixes with the scent of the pasticciotti of Ascalone (only about fifty meters ahead). We are talking about the very old shoe shop of Giacinto Vergine, born in the 30s.
In fact, you enter a sort of museum of Italian shoes. Inside there is a great confusion of boxes with noble names, such as: Pivetta, Borri, Calzaturificio di Varese, Alipa, the London Shoe. Real sculptures for the feet, shoes for princes and ladies, certainly for the gentlemen of the Galatina upper middle class.
As for the aristocracy, these shoes are now unique sizes, unique pieces. Only lucky feet can wear them; rightly beauty has its price, but while women with light feet find the number 36 and 37 or 38 or some 39, for men who want the New York top manager shoe finding the right size is a bit like winning the lottery.
Among the most interesting and strange shoes, there are the men's shoes in Kangaroo leather or the men's shoes in Peccary. Peccary is one of the most luxurious and soft leathers in the world, it comes from the processing of the skin of a wild pig from the Amazon, now close to extinction. The shoes are a production of at least 60 years ago. The London shoe is a type of shoe produced in Italy for the English market of even 70 years ago.
Of the historic company Calzaturificio di Varese, the Ascot model is interesting, which recalls the elegance needed to attend the horse races at the Ascot racecourse, supported by the English royal family (whose entourage is required to wear thight). While some women's models have been requested for some models and fashion shows of the Cavalli collection. We invite you to visit this emporium to be amazed (you will almost always find it open in the late afternoon). But hurry, we do not know how long a place like this will be able to resist in today's contemporary world.
Patrizia Calogiuri
(Designer di Moda)
Orecchiette Pasta
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