The story of a deck

  No need to make a holiday at sea to wear boat shoes, summer shoes connected with sea salt and decks of sailing. Moreover, created to facilitate walking in "them with robust, their sole trakteroti provide anti-slip protection. They are made primarily of soft leather high quality and durability, have laces and worn without socks. Combined with sets that have occasional -in no way worn with a good, fine kostoumi-, even swimwear. It is the shoe of Greek spring and summer international and aged 80 years.

  The history of the boat shoe starts somewhere in the early 30s and has more to do with the materials used in decks than fashion. Paul Spurs, once working in Abercrombie & Fitch had bought a small second-hand schooner and with his posed up a little, opened sail and went to sea. As soon as the deck is exposed to water, it became so slippery as when a lake freezes. The shoes he wore in the secured (cramming) the return journey the character of "nightmare". When he turned back to the port, an emery layer crossed the deck. And again he came out of the sea. Not slippery anymore, but the surface had become like sandpaper. It could come into contact only with his shoes. If the touched any other part of his body, rewarded immediately with a bitter abrasion.

  The sailors often wore espadrilles. The rope in hand outsole ensure them that they will be slippery when the deck was wet, but ... made them quite slippery when the deck was dry. And their style does not suit him. He was much more athletic type. He started experimenting with his shoes. Try all kinds of soles that existed in those years, but nothing made the difference as wanted. One day he noticed that his dog, a cocker spaniel, who shouted "Prince" never slipped on the wet deck. He noticed his paws. They had small streaks in various directions. He designed a more geometrical, but similar shape Herringbone (Herringbone we say in Greece) and "stepped" in a rubbery sole. Sell ​​the patent in Converse and in 1935 was born the boat shoe.