Survey: Do You Fix Your Shoes?

A certain frugal presidential candidate wears his shoes until there are holes in the bottoms and then has them resoled. This surprised me, I did not think anyone did this anymore. Nor did I think that someone on a campaign trail would wear leather soles when they could get more shock absorbent alternatives. Image by Callie Shell in Time

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