罗马尼亚多穷 罗马尼亚鞋匠造出75码的"社交隔离鞋"

罗马尼亚鞋匠造出75码的"社交隔离鞋"  

A cobbler has created size 75 leather shoes as a way for wearers to practise social distancing
after noticing that people were not following the safety guidance amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Grigore Lup
from the Transylvanian city of Cluj in Romania
has been making leather shoes for 39 years.
When the pandemic hit
the shoemaker
whose shop "relies heavily on custom orders from theatres and opera houses across the country
as well as traditional folk dance ensembles
" according to Reuters
saw his business impacted.
据路透社报道，疫情暴发后，这位鞋匠的生意受到了影响，他的鞋店“主要依赖于全国各地的戏院和歌剧院，还有传统民间舞蹈团的定制”。
However
according to Lup
as restrictions eased across Europe
he realised that people weren't taking social distancing seriously - so he came up with the lengthy shoes as a way for them to keep their distance.
"You can see it on the street
people are not respecting social distancing rules
" Lup told the outlet. "I went to the market to buy seedlings for my garden. There weren't many people there but they kept getting closer and closer.
"If o people wearing these shoes were facing each other
there would be almost one-and-a-half metres beeen them."
The shoes in question
adapted from a previous model Lup made for actors
are a European size 75 and require almost one square metre of leather.
Lup has since received five orders for the $115 shoes
which take him o days to make.
On social media
the unique shoes have been met with amusement
with many paring them to flippers.
"This is brilliant and absurd
” one person eeted
while another said the shoes "seem like scuba fins."
In Romania
there have been 19
669 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 1
296 deaths
according to the latest figures.