Ansley Trevo is a few months into her cobbler training with Mike Derouin, of the former Thee Only Shoe Repair in Rochester. She says she enjoys the community around the shoe repair business and seeing people wear their mended shoes.
In 2022, Rochester lost its final two shoe repair shops Boston Shoe Repair and Thee Only Shoe Repair. In southeastern Minnesota, the closest shoe repair shops are in Austin and Northfield.