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The big burly blokes who make infinitely precise pointe shoes by hand

30 November 2019

9:00 AM

30 November 2019

9:00 AM

Pauline, Petrova or Posy? Which Fossil sister are you? Or, rather, which Fossil sister did you hope to be when you first read Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes? It has to be Posy. The third and last adopted Fossil arrives in a basket with a note — ‘This is the little daughter of a dancer’ — and tiny slippers.

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