Men, would you wear a ballet shoe?

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Choosing your shoe is, for Nicol Edmonds, a decision that needs to be weighed carefully. The English dancer, a first soloist of The Royal Ballet, has remained loyal to one ballet shoe maker – Sansha, the pioneer of the glove-like split-sole slipper – for the past 14 years. “It’s like a musician and their instrument,” he says. “You get used to the shoes…