Manhattan, NY – Moshe Billet has been searching for the owner of a $800 Christian Louboutin right-footed pump he found on the street.
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Billet, 27, said as soon as he saw the red-bottomed shoe with a 4-inch heel, he knew whoever lost it would want it back.
“I saw the red bottom. I know what that means,” said Billet, who works in financial services.
“I quickly called a friend of mine who I know wears these things, and I’m like, ‘What would you do if you lost one of these?’ She’s like, ‘I would cry.'”
He found the open-toed, European-sized 39 shoe about 11:30 p.m. on June 23 near the intersection of 96thSt. and Broadway.
Billet, who lives in the area, immediately posted a lost-and-found ad on craigslist and a picture of it on both his Facebook page and Twitter account.
He even taped up flyers in his neighborhood to try to find the owner of the shoe – which, in a pair, sells for $795 at Neiman Marcus.
Billet said he thought he found the owner last week when a colleague spotted a flyer posted on W. 69th St. by a woman who lost a Christian Louboutin shoe. It turned out her missing pump was suede, while his is black leather.
“How was I gonna prove that the girl lost her shoe? I was gonna make her come with the other one. You know, produce the second glass slipper,” Billet said.
Mr Billet, Are you sure it’s the real thing? Believe it or not, there is a shoe repairman in the city, I think the Upper West Side, who will put red soles on your pumps to make them look like Louboutin’s!!!
How does one lose one shoe? I can’t imagine the one who lost it is hopping around on one 4″ heel.
Maybe it belongs to Cinderella
$800 shoes with a 4″ heel???? My guess is that the woman who owns these is single. How many men would want to marry a woman who wears such impractical shoes? Where are the woman who wear inexpensive and comfortable flat shoes they can actually walk in? I guess if a woman can afford $800 shoes she probably take taxis wherever she goes.
This is a modern day Cinderella Story. Hope it ends like the fairytale does 🙂
Mi keamcho Yisroel but perhaps the shoe belonged to a tourist or other guest who is no longer in town.
It looks like a bottom of the line and old style louboutin from the heel Hight and style. It’s prob a 400 dollar shoe at the most now. Sure whoever lost it isn’t crying thell get over it
What a kiddush Hashem!
Is he related to Rabbi Billet of Woodmere?
Uh finally.. a man with a good soul!
If he’s modern orthodox and from the UWS, I’m sure he won’t be satisfied until he gets to hold her leg and put the shoe on her foot. (just to verify it’s the right owner of course.) Me personally? I never heard of Louboutini and I hope it belongs to a vicious Black anti-semite that throws pennies at him when he gives it back to her. That’ll teach him to stop thinking about women’s legs all day.