Here’s your delicious A-list of Capezio dance shoes and 3 successful stories about Capezio. After making an emergency pair of shoes for Jean De Reszke, Salvatore Capezio made the transition from cobbler to shoemaker.

He had found that making dance shoes, pointe shoes in particular, was a challenging balance between delicate construction and complex engineering. Capezio stores carries an extensive selection of pointe shoes, tap shoes, jazz shoes, ballroom dance shoes, character shoes, ballet shoes, wing tip shoes, hip-hop shoes and hand-made professional shoes.

Capezio stores are also a meeting place for dancers who would stop by to discuss their needs and to get a pair of his shoes. One dancer in particular, Angelina Passone, a graduate of La Scala, lingered over the discussion of her shoes and would later become his wife.

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Here’s your delicious A-list of Capezio shoes and 3 Capezio knockout succors. The brand is a clear leader in the dance market offering dance shoes such as pointe shoes, tap shoes, jazz shoes, ballroom dance shoes, character shoes, ballet shoes, wing tip shoes, hip-hop shoes and hand-made professional shoes.

It was founded all the way back in 1887 by Salvatore Capezio who was born on April 13, 1871 in Muro Lucano, Italy and uninterested in following in his fathers footsteps as a construction engineer, he became an artist of his own right, a cobbler.

In 1887, at the age of 17, he opened his shop on Broadway and 39th Street, diagonally across from the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. At the time, the Statue of Liberty was barely a year old and the sign above his door read: The Theatrical & Historical Shoemaker.

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