BLOOMINGTON - When the soles wore out on Raymond Allyson Jr.'s very comfortable and well-made size 16 work boots he decided to have them repaired. "It costs less than buying new," he said. Fixing the ...

When we think of the shoe-obsessed consumer, our minds tend to go to women like Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw, who opted for Manolo Blahniks over a mortgage. But there’s a large segment of men ...