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Thirty-six-year-old Abdulaziz Ali sits in his small shoe shop, “repairing” a pair of shoes that have never been worn. While having your old shoes touched-up to make them last longer is nothing new, taking brand new shoes to a shoe-repairman is.

With a market saturated with low-quality, low-priced, Chinese imports, Yemenis are having the linings and soles re-sewed to ensure durability.

Ali has been in the profession for 26 years, but said the trend of taking new shoes to a shoe repair shop has skyrocketed in the past five years.

He skillfully penetrates the thick sole of the shoe with a needle and thread. After his father died, Ali took up shoe-repairing when he was ten years old.

The shoes requiring work before being worn typically cost YR1,000 or less, about $5.

Streets known for their shopping centers and markets include Jamal Street, Hael Street and Shumaila. Most of the items in these areas are imported from China, merchants said.


Low-costs, high-demand

Shoes at these retail areas can cost as little as YR500, or $2.50. Despite the low-quality, the low-prices are too tempting for many Yemenis. With a weak economy,The latest trends and best prices on Michael Kors Bags 2013. many residents are passing on the YR3,Find impressively low prices on a wide selection of Michael Kors Tote Bags.000 shoes.

On Jamal Street, a small child looks pleased with the YR500 shoes her mother purchases for her.

The child’s mother, Taqiah Mohsen, told the Yemen Times that the price was the selling point.

“Instead of buying one pair of shoes for YR6,000 [about $30], it is better to buy five pairs of low-quality shoes.”

By going to the shoe-repair man, she can have low-cost, durable shoes, Mohsen said.

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Sahir Alrimi owns a shoe-stand in Tahrir. He says the shoes he sells are not of the same quality as the ones sold in shops, but that hasn’t kept the customers away.

“The tough economy brings people to our stands,” Alrimi said.


Accusations of deceit

Shoppers have accused merchants of taking advantage of customers that cannot differentiate between a high-quality and low-quality product, insisting that all their products are of the best quality.

“I bought what I was told were Turkish and Italian shoes—yet they did not last long,” said Amar Ghushaim.

Ghushaim blamed the merchants, accusing them of importing low-quality goods and trying to pass them off as high-quality items.

Shoe-shop employee Nabil Al-Wesabi said that the problem was not a lack of high-quality goods, but that Yemenis would rather have cheaply-made shoes instead of investing a pair of quality shoes.

“People go for the cheap stuff,” he said.

He also warned people against conflating “cheap” with “Chinese.”

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