February 29, 2008

A step back in history.

I was laying in bed last night thinking back to the first shipment of Zuriick slip-ons we designed back in the summer of 2005. We made 50 pair of each color. We sold them at two local stores and to friends. We had to put the air holes in ourselves on my kitchen floor because we couldn't communicate well enough with the factory to explain exactly what we wanted. We hand sewed all the bags we shipped them in, which may not seem like much, but we did this up until about six months ago. We wanted to make shoes with color that were simple and slim. We've since cut back on bright colors in shoes and added color in with our tee shirts. The new Ake Lavender slip-on that just came in has brought back some good memories of when we were shoe making virgins. I thought we should share some of the photos from our first shipment so you can see where we started.