At an astronomical price of $38,000 per pair, Italian luxury leather goods label A. Testoni is offering the world’s most expensive pair of men’s dress shoes.

Testoni, founded in Bologna in 1929 by Amedeo Testoni, painstakingly handcrafts the Moro monk-strap model in the world’s finest exotic alligator skin using the techniques of Norvegese, or Norwegian construction, for durability and added water resistance.

Stiched with custom-made linen twine, the shoes are lined with glove-soft goatskin and adorned with a rich but discreet gold and diamond buckle.

To make the elegant footwear Testoni also employs a second proprietary process, called the piuma rapid, which requires some 200 manual operations to complete.

Each pair is made up, deconstructed, and then put back together again in a patented method. The result is a shoe as light as a feather yet which guarantees protection from hot, cold and humid weather.