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The Creeper: From Teddy Boys to Comme des Garçons
A Seventy-Five-Year Comeback That Never Ended The creeper has been declared dead more times than any shoe in fashion history. And it keeps coming back — not as a retro novelty, but as a shoe that people actually want to wear. From post-war dance halls to punk basements to the Comme des Garçons runway, the creeper has survived because it occupies a space no other shoe fills. We have sold...
How 2 Tone Records Changed Music — From Above a Boot Shop
The Label Upstairs Between 1979 and the early 1980s, one of the most important record labels in British music history operated from the first floor of a boot shop in Camden Town. The boot shop was ours. The label was 2 Tone Records. And the music that came out of those rooms — The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat — changed the sound of Britain. This is not ancient...
George Cox and the Brothel Creeper: A Complete History
The Shoe That Keeps Coming Back The brothel creeper is the most unlikely shoe in British fashion history. It was designed for desert warfare, adopted by Teddy Boys, revived by punks, embraced by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, worn on the runway by Comme des Garçons, and today sits in the permanent collections of fashion museums. And for most of that journey, one factory has been making it: George Cox...
The British Boot Company: 175 Years of Camden Bootmaking
A Shop Older Than the Tube Most boot shops have a founding story. Ours has a founding century. The British Boot Company — originally known as Holts — opened its doors in 1851, selling hobnail boots to the Irish labourers who were building the railways and canals that would transform Camden Town from a quiet parish into one of London's most restless neighbourhoods. The shop has been on Kentish Town...
