MINIATURE SHOES FOR GRADUATION

HUNGARY EA/HU/0015

It is a Hungarian tradition that students gaining their diplomas as shoemakers produce miniature copies of real-size shoes to prove their technical bravura. One is immediately reminded of the public art installation of iron footwear along the rivers of the Danube in Budapest commemorating the thousands executed during WWII. Shoes are more central to Hungarian history than it might appear at first sight.

MINIATURE SHOES FOR GRADUATION

HUNGARY EA/HU/0015

It is a Hungarian tradition that students gaining their diplomas as shoemakers produce miniature copies of real-size shoes to prove their technical bravura. One is immediately reminded of the public art installation of iron footwear along the rivers of the Danube in Budapest commemorating the thousands executed during WWII. Shoes are more central to Hungarian history than it might appear at first sight.