Boat shoe

Boat shoes (also Boatshoe, or by their model names named Top-Sider, Docksides and Docksider ) are flexible, very durable, saltwater resistant leisure and summer shoes leather in Mokassinmachart that are meant to wear barefoot.

Structure and Features

The unlined upper is made ​​of durable, smooth or rough ( Nubuck ) Oiled Leather (formerly elk, beef today ). As lace is a 120 -centimeter-long leather strap that surrounds the access opening of the shoe and allows to adapt a result of wetness slipping in the heel shaft. The total of four (sometimes six) sink solving are protected from tarnish brass. Boat shoes are built in Mokassinmachart and with sutures of nylon yarns. You have a fortified with latex adhesive additional interior leather insole and a particularly flexible, sewn in Durchnähverfahren sole, of rubber or synthetic rubber with a knife -sectional profile. The fine herringbone -like sole profile causes water to run freely through the grooves, offers the wearer on a slippery, wet boat deck optimum grip and prevented due to its fineness that the boat deck zerkratzende stones can become lodged in the sole tread.

Origin

The boat shoe was developed in 1935 by the American recreational sailor Paul Sperry, who found the former sailing shoes (canvas shaft with crepe sole or hemp ) impractical. Originally, the shafts of boat shoes were uniformly brown. Sperry gave the boat shoe the still existing model name Top-Sider.

Development

In the 1980s, fashionable boat shoes were mainstream. The shafts there ever since in numerous colors, even in color. The soles are usually cream or white. To make unfit for walk long distances on land solely on the basis of his shoe bottom boat shoe suitable for everyday use, some manufacturers have this shoe model provided with a lining, a treaded sole and a shank edge padding. Sailors carry on board now highly specialized deck shoes that have no visual resemblance to the model of the boat shoe.