Winklepickers (1960)

C/U of the open pages of a fashion book with a plate showing a couple dressed in fashions from the 1700s, panning right to show the hands of shoemaker and designer Stan Bartholomeu sketching a pointed-toed shoe from a book with illustrations of footwear from the Fifteenth century. M/S and C/U of him sketching as commentator says “Those medieval shoes are partly responsible for the birth of a current vogue among teenagers - the Winklepicker“, and goes on to say that SB’s shop in Battersea, London “is a mecca today for members of the Beat generation“. M/Ss and C/Us of SB selecting a piece of blue leather and cutting out the shoe design from a template, then of another man at a sewing machine, stitching the inner lining to the leather upper. Next, a man is seen tacking the leather onto a wooden last; then we see a man buffing two different shoes (a white and a red high-heeled winklepicker) at the buffing machine. M/Ss and C/Us of a shop assistant and two girls sitting in the shoe shop, one girl tries