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In April 2003, Ney brought 2 pairs
of tango shoes back from Argentina for Jennifer: fuzzy grey pony and black lace, both with sky high stilettos and completely
open toes. He had bought them from a tiny showroom in someone's apartment. She thought "These don't look like
any tango shoes I've seen before." and then she thought "I think I like them!" and thus it started...
Jennifer Bratt, founder of Maleva Shoes, has been bringing Comme il Faut tango shoes to ladies around the United States
and world, since September 2003 shortly after the brand launched and she spotted the shoes on the dance floors of Buenos Aires.
Jennifer was one of the first Comme il Faut distributors, selling shoes to her students in New York City and at local milongas,
then beginning an e-mail list to announce new shoe shipments to ladies around the country and selling at nation-wide tango
festivals, and then listing shoes online on her teaching web site Close-Embrace.com . Jennifer also coined the now popular phrase "Comme il Fauts are the Manolo Blahniks of Tango Footwear".
In 2006, Jennifer opened a shoe showroom in her own apartment in New York and launched the web site MalevaShoes.com . In
May of 2008, Jennifer proudly opened a dance studio in San Francisco with her partner Ney Melo: TangoVida.
Now six years after its beginnings, Maleva Shoes is based in beautiful Miami Beach, with new
shipments arriving all the time. Welcome!
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ma-LAY-va : tough girl, bad girl, fighter, from the wrong side of the tracks adjective, from lunfardo/argentine slang,
feminine of 'malevo' Found in many
tango lyrics and titles, including the famous 'La Maleva' which was recorded by many of the top orchestras of the
Golden Age
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