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DESCRIPTION
Pickering presents a classic boat shoe on a chunky sole, designed to accompany your every leisurely pursuit. Rendered in smooth leathers with apron piped toe and traditional leather laces, Pickering is situated on a cleated rubber sole for added definition. Inlaid with a luxury leather footbed with moulded arch, and externally finished with tonal stitch detailing, this deck shoe is both relaxed and refined.
REF: PICKERING
Order Code: 322 023
Gender: Male
Upper: Leather
Insole: Leather
Sole: Other
Width: Standard (F fitting)
What does it mean?
Boat Shoe
They say a smooth sea never made a good sailor, so let us tell you the tale of how a rough sea created the iconic boat shoe.
In 1935, Sailor Sperry was having trouble maintaining grip on deck in the wet, choppy conditions, meaning even simple tasks became dangerous to attempt. He watched as his dog run across smooth ice whilst still maintaining its grip, on close inspection of the dog’s paw he found that the grooves on the paw were giving the dog traction on smooth surfaces.
Sperry set to work carving similar small grooves into the gummy rubber soles of his shoes to improve traction on the deck. It worked a treat! He updated the shoes to white soles as to not leave marks, added a siped herringbone pattern to the sole and the boat shoe was born.
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