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LatestnomaseiSep 5, 20266 min

Is the Nomasei ARIA boot worth $890?

Fifty wears a year for five years puts the $890 ARIA at $3.56 a wear, out of a 40-person family factory in Montopoli, Tuscany. Two to three times that price is $1,780 to $2,670 — our multiplication, not a boot we can source.

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