Knocking together some custom geta!

We're doing some shoes for Pericles that...well, they'll have to be seen to be believed (and fear not, i will do a process post when they are finished).

If you are familiar with the play, you know there's a character called Bawd who is a fairly ruthless whorehouse madam (sometimes ominous, sometimes comic relief, depending on the production); these are her shoes. The upper portion is the subject of a-whole-nother post yet to come, but i felt that the soles called for their own separate focus. These shoes are to be built upon traditional Japanese geta soles--the lifted-up wooden patten-like ones. (Incidentally, geta seem to be kind of popular here; this is not my first post on them!)

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