Dr Martens boots represent the perfect off-duty look in the fashion world: cowboys pitillo, a white braces shirt and round boots with unbuttoned laces have been the stylistic maximum that the models looked between parade and parade during the weeksFashion.A concept that transcends time and styles: we can find them in the punk closet, in the grunge, in the writers like Caitlin Moran, which recommends loving them to lose stiffness before releasing them.

History of Dr Martens

The Dr Martens are probably the military (or rather, laces) most famous industry boots.Reasons do not lack a footwear that became an absolute symbol of rebellion.Associated with the movements of some of the most famous street tribes, it has been the eternal symbol of unconformist adolescent (and discontent) with the world around him.

Despite their ubiquity, the Dr Martens were born by accident.The first germ is found in the modest work boots that the Griggs family produced in Wollaston (Northambtonshire, in the British midlands) for six decades since 1901. They were very resistant and durable, one of the symbols of the English footwear sector ... untilDr. Klaus Maertens entered the scene. In this point the story moves to the postwar era in Munich (Germany), in 1945, to talk about a 25 -year -old soldier who devised a sole with air cushion (instead of the traditionalleather) to recover from a broken foot injury.Maertens allied with an old friend from the University, Dr. Herbert Funk, to create a prototype whose formal production has already started in 1947. By 1959 the business was going to the stern and decided to take the step to make it known in the magazines abroad from abroad.

It was one of his ads that caught the attention of the Griggs company, directed at that time by the third generation of the family. They said to acquire an exclusive license and introduced some changes: they altered the heel, they put one (now iconic)yellow thread stitch and added a carada sole of two tones.They also included a bond in the heel in black and yellow, with the name and slogan in English "with soles that bounce."On April 1, 1960 the first pair was marketed: the Dr Martens had been born as we know them today.

They began to be used by factory workers and porteros.With an affordable price of two pounds, it was the resounding footwear of the working classes of England.A milestone with a lot of logic in the turbulent panorama that would follow: among the workers' revolts for the high unemployment figures and an atmosphere of discontent against the government, it was the Skinheads who made the style of the British working class.Pete Townshend, leader of the band The Who, was the first to make them fashionable when he stepped on a stage, in 1966. Of work uniform, the Dr Martens became the footwear of the punk.Of the Gothic, who kept them as part of their closet.A symbol of the youth counterculture that, as happened with the rest of the distinctive elements of the movement, capitalized fashion and made it a mass phenomenon.

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In his aesthetic apathy, the grunge also made them part of his uniform.The same as the Britpop, who endorsed the model known as 1460. Since then, the DR Martens have transcended the underground to become the most versatile footwear of the wardrobe.Will Smith wore them unleashed in the Prince of Bel Air.A very young Demi Moore posed with them in 1993, accompanying a black dress with Cut-Out at the height of the belly (a look, by the way, not very different from those that are taken in 2021).Although they went through an era of skinny cows in the early 2000s, the Dr Martens becameThey. Especially since they are very me, "Veronika Heilbrunner, one of his most arduous defenders on one occasion.

Today the Dr Martens enjoy a (good) health.There are several designers who have collaborated with the firm: for example, in 2018, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the emblematic Marc Jacobs parade for Perry Ellis, they launched a reinterpretation of the iconic boot that referred to the same grunge spirit that Jacobs uploaded at that time at that timeTo the catwalk. Actually, any of its versions, including those of the most resounding platform, are a safe bet.Here we review 23 ideas that are pure inspiration to unleash your looks.Because few footwear talk about self -expression like Dr Martens.