And there’s no miracle product to prevent that, says Eduard Shimunov of Financial District shoe-repair store Cobbler Express — “unless you put a bag over them,” he says. “Dirt is dirt.

Brave Pudding’s literal interpretation of the sock-shoe trend has been embraced by fashion influencers and fancy moms.

The heady aroma of shoe polish and tobacco wafts out the door of J&B Boot and Shoe Repair, a strip-mall throwback to the days when you could find a cobbler on almost every corner. Like those old ...

It seemed inevitable that Dan Lentz would become a cobbler. At 12, his first job was shining shoes at Roy's Shoe Shop in ...

Her solution? Turn them into shoes. Fiszel, 45, visited her cobbler to learn about technique, and then bought supplies like rubber soles and glue. She wore the resulting sock-shoes around New ...