mrshoe

Earlier today I penned a piece about some mustang brand of trainers and now we are here to look at some sandals made by wrangler, a company more closely associated with denim.

The two brands are completely un-related but share a remarkable connection with the horse world. Search engines are clearly very useful but equally, they become biased toward material and commercialism.

Type the word mustang in any search engine and you will indeed be directed to trainers of that brand. You will also have countless sites devoted to an American sports car with the same name.

To read about the original mustang that to my knowledge has always referred to the Americas wild breed of feral horses, you have to direct the search engine with the additional keyword of horse.

You’ll also have to add the same keyword horse, with wrangler to get the original source of the word that is not a clothing company founded in the States 114 years ago.

The original word wrangler is old German and appears for the first time in the early sixteenth century. It refers to men that looked after horses. So, there’s the horse connection.

But back to wrangler jeans and wrangler sandals. These are made by the same American company and are fairly synonymous with denim.

Like all successful companies the brand was too popular with their denim not to diversify into other clothing related products. Denim jeans are closely associated with the Wild West and cowboys.

And so, it was a natural continuation to enter the world of tough leather boots. From there, the progression continued with other forms of footwear including sandals.

Ever since flower power and all those sixties happy hippies, sandals suffered a poor press. But there’s nothing quite like them for beaches and hot sunny days.

These wranglers use memory foam and are therefore remarkably comfortable. They’re also made with leather uppers that is still the best material against bare skin. OK, so is canvas, but you get the point.