Figure 1.-- Here are several styles of shoes and pair of sandals offered by Sears in their Spring-Summer 1952 catalog. The facing pages had girls' shoes.
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Figure 1.-- Here are several styles of shoes and pair of sandals offered by Sears in their Spring-Summer 1952 catalog. The facing pages had girls' shoes. |
There were two categories. The heading "child stormwelting" was captioned, "between upper ??? sole seals out mud, dirt; helps hold shoes in ??? .. Made over small boys' lasts for ??? fit." Some of the shoes featured a double-thick tractor tread while others had plain rubber soles.
I notice several of these embossed vamp shoes offered by Sears in the early 1950s. I don't recall at the time boys wearing them. I'm not sure if h9is Western styling was popular with boys. I could have been as cowboys were all the rage at the time.
Sears doesn't really describe the styke of this shoes, but stresses its masuline look. The Sears ad copy read, "He-man through and through; from the massive rubber soles to the storm-welting, to the embossed 'ridge' trim. Made over full wide last. Flexible sewed construction. Husky leather upper .. soft padded tongue. Rubber heel." Done in brown.
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