Would You Like Shoes With That?

This photo was taken unexpectedly by our friend Constance at an early dinner with her husband Gaël and her children last week in San Francisco.

Constance is the men's shoe buyer for Sarenza, a French language shoe shopping web site that offers selected models by a variety of makers including some, like Pierre Corthay and Santoni, that are difficult to find online. There is currently a sale with models such as Corthay's Arca discounted from 850,00 € ($1,170) to 595,00 € ($819) including VAT. If, as they should, the site deducts VAT for U. S. buyers the Corthays would be very well priced at roughly $656.