A bootmaker in Romania has come up with a unique way of enforcing social distancing - he's creating a new range of size 75 shoes.
Grigor Lup, a cobbler from the city of Cluj in Transylvania, became concerned that people were not respecting the rules when COVID-19 restrictions began to ease last month.
Lup's new range of exceptionally long footwear (pictured) aims to remind people to keep their distance.
"I went to the market to buy seedlings for my garden...there weren't many people there, but they kept getting closer and closer," he told Reuters.
"If two people wearing these shoes were facing each other there would be almost 1.5 metres between them," he said.
Although he sells a full range of ready-made shoes, the shoemaker specialises in custom made footwear produced especially for theatre performers across the country.
Business has ground to a halt due to the coronavirus shutdowns, but he's already received five orders for the special new range which costs about $150 a pair.
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