Finishing things off: 2 millimeters of lining leather, Vibram rubber soles, a steel shank, a leather heel counter and a styrene toe box to harden the front and prevent nasty stubs.
Back on the stretch of freshly paved road, the team's ironmonger wiped his sweaty palms on his thick leather apron, then retrieved a lunch box from the bullock-cart piled with welding gear and scrambled up the slope to get a better view of the proceedings.
Sitting at the long leather bar listening to Ella, sipping a "Box Brownie" (liqueur-infused strawberries swimming in champagne) and being lured in by Donovan's photographic stable of ingenues just might provide your perfect London moment.