A very special man who spent a lifetime making very special shoes for some very special feet recently passed away. For people with disfigured feet, shopping for shoes that would enable them to walk was a near impossibility. Robert Mokros lost his foot at the age of 13 and found out exactly how impossible it was for any of how new classmates to purchase shoes could be. He was sent to a school for children with disabilities after the loss of his foot. There he saw that many of his classmates had disfigured feet but could not buy shoes. In his home country of Germany this could have life threatening effects in winter.
Robert created his very special shoes for people with disfigurements all around the world, and unlike shoe shopping for most of us, he did not even need the foot the shoe was meant for.
Simply looking at an individuals feet he was able to carve the exact likeness from wood in order to fit the shoe to the foot. He used a few assistive devices such as dye footprints or plaster castings and sometimes just paper tracings or simple sketches. His unique talent permitted thousands of customers to purchase their first pair of shoes. Some his customers were able...
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