Hush Puppies
Product type | Footwear |
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Owner | Wolverine World Wide |
Country | United States |
Introduced | 1958 |
Markets | 120 countries |
Website | www |
Hush Puppies is an American brand of casual footwear. A division of Wolverine World Wide, Hush Puppies is headquartered in Rockford, Michigan. Wolverine also licenses the Hush Puppies name for apparel, toys and accessories.[1]
Hush Puppies uses a
History
The Hush Puppies brand was founded in 1958 following extensive work by Wolverine to develop a practical method of
1990s resurgence
In 1994, when sales were down to 30,000 pairs a year, Hush Puppies suddenly became
Hush Puppies also benefited from the trend toward dressing-down at work, filling the fashion gap between sneakers and dress shoes. Depending on word of mouth, Wolverine sold 430,000 pairs of the shoes in 1995, and four times that the following year. Hush Puppies won the prize for best accessory at the Council of Fashion Designers awards dinner in 1995.[5][7][8]
Hush Puppies' rapid rise in popularity was used as an example of a tipping point by journalist Malcolm Gladwell.[5]
In popular culture
Hush Puppies claimed their rubber soles saved the life of
Hush Puppy shoes are referenced in a number of songs, including Jimmy Buffett's "Come Monday", Oran "Juice" Jones's "The Rain", and Pete Townshend's "Rough Boys".[4]
Mikhail Gorbachev invited the brand to be the first American company to do business in the Soviet Union.[4]
The shoes were worn by Forrest Gump in the movie Forrest Gump.[4]
Hush Puppies referenced in The Tipping Point book by Malcolm Gladwell
References
- ^ OL 8607119M– via Funding Universe.
- ^ "Jason's Hush Puppies Scrapbook". Archived from the original on 2006-02-19. Retrieved 2006-03-05.
- ^ "The Basset Hound". Dogster. 2020-08-14. Archived from the original on May 10, 2021. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ a b c d "Hush Puppies shoes mark 50 star-studded years". The Grand Rapids Press. March 9, 2008. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2022.
- ^ . 2000-04-22. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ Associated Press (1996-05-12). "Trendy Feet Find Themselves Beating a Path to Hush Puppies". Deseret News. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ "Wolverine World Wide Reports Higher Earnings and Sales for Year and Fourth Quarter". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
- ^ Stafford, Rod (December 3, 1995). "If Di Can't Come, Forget the Cameras". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on July 2, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ^ "Bee History: Shocking night for Keith Richards". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on July 21, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
External links
- Official website—Hush Puppies.com
- Spokane Daily Chronicle—late 1960s newspaper ad for Bozos oxfords - 1968-11-14 - p. 43