A Brief History of the Boat Shoe

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BOAT SHOE BY DARTITUP.COM -1935 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 PAUL SPERRY NOTICED HIS DOG'S AMAZING ABILITY TO MAINTAIN TRACTION WHILE RUNNING ON AN ICY SURFACE. THIS INSPIRED PERRY TO DEVELOP AND PATENT A SHOE WITH WAVE-LIKE SOLES. $4.50 SPERRY CHARGED $4.50 A PAIR FOR THE FIRST BOAT SHOE. Abercrombie &Fitch IN THE MID 1930s AMBERCROMBIE & FITCH BEGINS TO DISTRIBUTE THE SPERRY TOP-SIDER. DEPARTMENT INITED STATER f THE NAVY * VJlaaNy OF OF IN 1939 THE US NAVY NEGOTIATED THE RIGHT TO MANUFACTURE PAUL SPERRY'S SHOES FOR ITS SAILORS, WHICH CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. JAWS SPERRYS BEGIN TO GO MAINSTREAM WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF SAIL MAGAZINE AND APPERANCES IN THE JAWS MOVIE FRANCHISE. THE OFFICIAL PREPPY HANDBOOK 1 Manner The Tradition Dres Cades, The Family. How to Be Really Top Drawer The Legay of Geod Taste, Prper Breeding & ib Righe Nickmame. ing withFe Ch el LISA BIRNBACH IN 1980, THE OFFICIAL PREPPY HANDBOOK CATAPULTS THE SPERRY TOP-SIDER AS THE OFFICIAL SHOE OF PREPPY STYLE. SPERRY OPENED A EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS IN PARIS IN THE SUMMER OF 1993. IN 2009 FOOTWEAR NEWS NAMED SPERRY TOP-SIDER ITS BRAND OF THE YEAR. IN THE SAME YEAR, SPERRY OPENED ITS FIRST FIVE RETAIL STORES CERTIFIED CLASSICS dartitup Created by -- a place to share and find cool things from all across the web. This infographic features infomation sourced via Wikipedia & Sailing Simplicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry_Top-Sider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_shoe http://sailingsimplicity.com/images/SperryHistory.pdf