Dr Martens 1460

Almost from the moment the British shoe manufacturer R. Griggs Group has launched the Dr. Martens boot model 1460 in April Fools Day 1960, the shoe has been popular with British postal workers, policemen and factory workers. The 1460, an eight eyelet, cherry red, design napa leather.

In less than a decade, Dr. Martens 1460 (named for the date of introduction, using the convention of month / day / year) Boots became popular with the British working subculture of skinheads. Over the years, the skinhead culture has become more violent and racist, and Dr. Martens boots teamed with football hooligans.

In the seventies, some young soccer fans started painting team colors on their boots, boots well painted white were more popular. It was also common for football hooligans to remove the leather from the tops of their boots exposed steel toe caps for extra intimidation.

police forces of the United Kingdom has determined that steel-toed boots were exposed "an offensive weapon" and barred them from football. With hooligans continue to use their Dr Martens to beat the opposing team's fans, police have developed a new tactic insisted that anyone wearing Dr. Martens boots to remove the laces, reasoning that the boots coward would do less damage. This initiative has been greeted with the smuggling of fans winding parts, with hooligans sometimes enlisting their friends to sneak into the stadium laces.

The problem with football hooligans using them to launch the Dr. Martens fans of opposing teams became so bad that the fans are sometimes forced to remove their shoes for the entire duration of the Games. Boots could not be recovered until the opposition fans left the stadium, how naked fans rushed to get their boots or, hopefully, a new pair that formerly belonged to the another.

Dr. Martens Boots has also been associated with British nationalism, which is ironic in that Dr. Klaus Maertens (the "first e" was dropped to the anglicized name of the boot.) Himself was a doctor in the army Germany during the Second World War, and shoes that bear his name have been made in the post-war Germany. trading partner Dr. Maertens was Dr. Herbert Funck. The R. Griggs Group has wisely decided not to use the name of Mr. Funk's boots for obvious reasons.

Dr. Martens has also been associated with certain subcultures of music originating in the U.S. One of the most striking examples of this was the grunge band Nirvana, who helped popularize the blue-collar uniform shirt lumberjack chic flannel and boots Dr. Martens.

In the early nineties, Dr. Martens had become very popular with young women, with wives, even wearing a white pair of patent leather boots of their marriages. Accordingly, a version of Dr. Martens dress was introduced in gold with white lace.

Dr. Klaus Martens, in his first created a pair of boots with soles filled with air to relieve the pain in his own feet, probably had no idea that a multitude of sub-cultures that adopt them and customize under their uniforms. There is no doubt that he had never imagined that thousands of young women who wear boots that bears his name to their own marriage.