Fashion People Are Wearing Boat Shoes Again, Here’s Why
Jacopo Raule/Getty Images By Julian Randall ·Updated June 6, 2024 < /> The classic yacht shoe has made its way back into the fashion fold. From the looks of my For You page on Instagram, if consumers aren’t posting about how much jellies are worth paying for, they’re showing off how bold they are for dusting off their Sperry top-siders for wear. The traditional boat shoe is derived from the moccasin, one of the two oldest forms of footwear next to sandals dating back to the Paleolithic. Then, they were made out of a range of animal skins and adorned to denote something about the wearer and their culture. Native American tribes in particular have a hand in the history and cultural significance of thesrc="https://www.essence.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/blackstock-weber-sperry.png" alt="Fashion People Are Wearing Boat Shoes Again, Here’s Why" width="400" height="225" />Blackstock & Weber Indeed, the moccasin->Chris Echevarria, founder of Blackstock & Weber who also recently opened a conceptual storefront in Soho released a now sold-out Sperry collaboration in January. His iterations reimagined two classic Sperry designs, the Captain’s Oxford and the Authentic Original Boat shoe. Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Brands like The Row, Miu Miu, and Fendi recently showed boat shoes in their collections, which, for most of us, would be reason enough to consider slipping our foot into something that might evoke images of a White greek organization or what we wore as teenagers. Schlossman notes them being part of a cultural uniform during his fraternity days at Wake Forest University. He acknowledges that it can be easy to ascribe the boat shoe to upper-class, out-of-touch white men.You could say that about a lot of the clothes we wear, especially in the United States. But how effectively you can spin a thing has always been more relevant in fashion. The same could be said for consumers at large. And however classic and adaptable, something about the shoe has always been slightly dorky to me. Or ripe for quirking. I’m thinking about some red Sperry’s I wore with a pair of seersucker trousers on my first day at the arts magnet high school I’d started attending. Looking back, that was a pretty clown-ish look (although I couldn’t have been convinced out of it at the time). Getty Images A savvier example of the subversive potency of the boat shoe is personalrel="tag">Pharrell WilliamsThe post Fashion People Are Wearing Boat Shoes Again, Here’s Why appeared first on Essence.
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