We were sitting in the early Autumn sunshine in a café in the beautiful Italian town of Bolzano, there for 3 days of relaxation after 5 days of hiking.
The weather had been spectacular and we felt fit and both had a healthy outdoor glow.
We watched the world go by, admiring the beautifully dressed Italians as they promenaded.
My wife, Helen, sighed contentedly and reached out and held my hand. I looked at her and again thought to myself how lucky I was with her. She always caught my eye as the most beautiful woman in the room, even after 30 years of marriage.
Her 5 ft 3-inch frame was slim (at 110 lbs) and toned and for a 55 year old and she was in great shape: toned, fit legs, flat smooth tummy and generous breasts...and her perfect petite feet were her greatest asset...apart from her amazing open smile and beautiful brown eyes.
My obsession, was, I admit her feet. I have a love of women's feet and enjoy seeing women with beautiful feet, but Helen's were on a different level: short toes with perfect nails, high arches and, beautiful tendons...all brought together today with deep red nail polish.
As we sat there, Helen's Tori Burch sandals dangled and the sun warmed her lightly tanned feet...and I snuck occasional looks at them.
We finished our coffee and chatted about what to do for the rest of the afternoon before our dinner reservation. As we were talking, someone sat down at the next-door table to Helen. We both looked around to be met with a broad smile from a beautifully dressed Italian man. He settled into his seat and opened his newspaper, signalling to the waiter at the same time...the waiter smiling and waving...and we thought that our new terrace companion must be a local. Sure enough he was, and over came an espresso and a cornetti pastry, certainly his usual.
We settled back into our discussion about the afternoon and finished our coffees. As we were about to call for the bill, our new friend leaned over and again, with his smile, asked if we were enjoying our stay in "his" town.
We easily fell into chatting - his English was perfect and with only a slight accent. We found out he had spent a lot if his early years working in London. As we chatted, we asked him to join our table and he told us all about things to see and do in and around the town and we told him how much we were enjoying the food, the shops and the beautiful architecture. He was (as I expected!) very attentive to Helen and one or twice gently touched her arm to emphasise a point.
As the conversation moved on, I asked him what he did here in Bolzano. He responded by telling us he was a designer and maker of ladies' shoes and his atelier was just around the corner and as we suspected, this café was his home-from-home. He told us that his atelier was very small but that he was very luck in that he had a long list of wonderful, loyal clients and that he did not have to advertise. That all of his clients came by word of mouth and that there was even a 6-month waiting list for his shoes. He did this all very modestly...continuing to charm us both, but especially Helen...as I could tell.
At one stage, he leant forward and lightly touching Helen's knee (she was wearing a short'ish white wool skirt) and looking mainly at Helen, but also at me, told us that Helen's feet were amongst the most beautiful he had seen...and as a shoemaker of beautiful ladies' shoes, he had seen many. He promised it was the truth and as always, his smile made us smile too.
At this, he leaned forward, touched Helen's elbow again and said that we must come and see his atelier as it was right around the corner and today, Friday, was a half day for his team so he could show us around and not disturb the work.
He smiled and apologised for not introducing himself and we exchanged names - his was Mauro.
We looked at each other and readily agreed to go with him, Helen especially eager to see the workshop and his shoe designs.
We got up and followed him, Mauro having told us the bill would be taken care of and laughingly said he would expense it as we were clients now that we were going to see his workshop!
We walked around the corner and 3 doors down the colonnade was a beautifully carved, enormous oak door. Mauro punched in some numbers on a keypad and the door silently opened. Beyond the door was a beautiful staircase leading up to a landing with a bright glowing Murano glass chandelier. The whole place was beautifully decorated. Mauro advised us he was the 3rd generation family shoemaker, but the first to specialise in ladies' shoes...especially high heel sandals..."like Manolo Blahnik", he laughed.
He gestured for us to climb the stairs, allowing Helen to go first. The climb showed off her perfect, toned legs and her feet in those flat sandals. I could see Mauro's eyes were running up and down her legs and I smiled to myself.
We arrived on the first landing, into a beautiful salon. Bookcases lined the wall and it was expensively decorated. In the centre was a large cream leather day-bed and Mauro told us this was where he met all of his clients for fittings and design discussions.
He gestured for Helen to sit on the day bed and me to join her and he knelt in front of her, taking her by surprise. He immediately said that he was just going to show her some designs but first he needed to 'understand' her feet and also her legs as the shoes he designed are for the feet, the legs and the "whole woman".
Asking permission, which Helen quickly gave after looking at me (and I nodded), he gently removed her flat sandals took her left calf in one hand and raised her foot. "So beautiful" he said quietly to himself and proceeded to gently explore her foot...the soles, ankle, toes, between her toes, taking his time and at one stage turning to me with his generous smile. I smiled back and he continued.
At all of this attention Helen had involuntarily sighed a couple of times. She loves having her toes gently massaged and in our sex life, often uses them on me as she knows it really arouses me.
Mauro took her foot and placed in in his lap, looking up at her. Her foot pressed down and I realised that Mauro was aroused, the clear outline of his cock under his linen trousers. Helen's eyes widened as he rested it there, his erect cock very obvious to her soft feet...but she did not move her foot away. Mauro held her foot there for a few seconds, pressing it down on his cock, their eyes still connected.
After a few seconds, he took his hands away and moved to her other foot, leaving her first foot resting firmly on his rapidly hardening hard cock.
It was the same treatment for the other foot...exploring, massaging, between her red toes...with Helen sighing quietly. All while her other foot was resting on his cock.
Mauro then placed both feet on his hard shaft and looking across at me said that I was a very lucky man, again using his disarming smile. My smile back at him signalled my agreement that he could continue. Helen's feet, in the meantime were resting on an erect cock of a man we had only just met.
Mauro's hands moved up her calves, caressing her skin and occasionally retuning to press her feet down on his cock. In response, I was rock hard as well, loving the sight of those perfect petite feet making another man so aroused.
Slowly his hands advanced up her legs, rubbing behind her knees. Helen didn't encourage him...or resist, as he continued to explore her toned, slim calves.
He said that understanding the legs was so important for the perfect shoe fit and then moved his hands up beyond her knees, up to her thighs. She was looking slightly flushed, but the fact that she did not stop him, Mauro took as approval to continue.
"You know, to truly appreciate the line of the shoe, we need to see the whole leg." he said.
Looking at me, he then said "So I think we should just slip off your skirt, Helen."
Helen and I exchanged looks, knowing that this was moving rapidly beyond just a shoe fitting and flirting. I gave a slight nod at her and she turned and responded to Mauro by saying "Well, I do want to see how the shoes would really look" and slowly stood up in front of Mauro. She carefully undid the clasp of her white skirt, slid down the zipper and let her skirt fall to the floor.
Her tiny g-string panties were now exposed, with just a gossamer thin layer of fabric covering her smooth, bare pussy lips. Maruo's eyes ran over her panties, down her thighs and calves to her bare feet and back up.
"Quite perfect" he whispered.
With that, he reached under the day-bed and pulled out 3 or 4 shoe boxes. Opening one, he pulled out a beautiful pair of golden stiletto sandals.
"These will be perfect for you" he said and gestured for her to sit back down, which she did