Salih Pasanbegovic is known in Zenica by the nickname Pasan, which is also the name of his shoe store where he works for many years.
He emphasized that the charm of a shoemaker’s job is the pleasure of making and repairing shoes for a customer, but also in making of special shoes, like orthopedic shoes, dancing shoes and other, for which many customers are interested from Sarajevo, Mostar, Vitez, Konic, Brcko and ohter BH cities.
While he was sewing shoes at one of machines, our interlocutor said that customers are still bringing shoes on repairment, but also said that he often returns them considering that is better to buy the new ones.
In a workshop where are many machines that Pasanbegovic have bought, there are ones specially beloved to him. One of them is a sewing machine “Singer“ which is older than him, and he hopes that it will experience a lot of Pasan’s in future.
Our interlocutor said for the end of this conservation that he wants to do this job till the end of his life and that he hopes his son will continue the tradition.
(Source: klix.ba)