Pennsylvania, learning to make custom men’s dress shoes. In 2013, he came back to Flint to open a custom shoe-making and repair shop on Buckham Alley in Flint’s burgeoning downtown district. In the fall of 2014 Cinthia started working in the shop, apprenticing under Tim, learning how to make and repair shoes. It wasn’t long before the shop morphed into a partnership as we began to conspire on how we might expand the focus of the work, which has now coalesced into Sutorial Boots and Shoes.