Sharon's Shoe & Luggage Repair shop fame Jeff D'Angelo, for whom shoes mean 90 percent business, has worked on everything from a ballroom dancer's suede-bottomed soles to Payless store sandals.

D' Angelo fixes everything from the ski boots, tap shoes, sneakers with stitches pulled out to ballet slippers whose elastic has come undone stacked up around the shop.

He even repairs leather jacket or suit the window shades when the thread in the slots gets dried out, or their nylon backpacks or briefcases.

D'Angelo's mantra is "Almost everything can be fixed." "We repair the unrepairables."

The only thing he does not do is dye shoes because the colors change so much in different light and on different fabrics.

His tool box is an ideal one with a welt stitcher, multi-finisher, hydraulic sole press, and other machines that buff, heat, nail and hammer.

D'Angelo has been working in Sharon Square for 21 years and what keeps him going is his sense of humour, concern for customers and lack of competition.