Dancer in pointe shoes

How To Reinsert a Drawstring Into a Gaynor Minden Pointe Shoe

Editor’s note: this is revised from a 2020 blog post. Back in 2020, my teacher (shoutout to Dmitri) approved me for my first pair of pointe shoes. I went to the Ballett-Shop to get professionally fitted, and went home with a pair of Gaynor Mindens. The first thing I did was sew on ribbons and elastics. The second thing was immediately lose the elastic drawstring inside the casing. In a truly gratuitous display of stupidity, Read more…