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Got my dyer mocs repaired

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BowEd:
They are doubled soled mocs.


Repaired.

bjrogg:
Those look really comfy Ed. And by the wear I’m thinking you agree.
Bjrogg

Pat B:
Back in the early 1970's I had a pair of ankle high, lace up mocs made by Walter Dyer. I wore either them or the sandles I made all the time. I don't know where they went though. Yours look quite comfortable.
The guy I learned leather work from in Savannah learned from Walter Dyer and DD Holiday from Jacksonville, Fla. Together these two guys used to make dance shows for Isadora Duncan back in the 1920's and 30's. The sandles we made back then came out of the Bohemian era by these two guys.

BowEd:
Carl Dyer and sons made mine.They call them Carl Dyers' Orignals.They sold a lot of them to buckskinners.I acquired mine back in the early 1980's.Back then I bought this pair for $70.00.They are now around $400.00.They are located in Friendship,Indiana.
Back then their sales pitch was since our mocs are double soled with 1/4" thick layers anytime you wear out 1 layer they would resole it for nothing but the shipping.
Not so any more as there is a charge along with the shipping but still a lot less to resole than buying new.
Took me close to 40 years to wear through the first thickness of sole.

Pat B:
Yeah, I think Walter Dyer was in Massachusetts back then. I guess they are related. I have no idea what my mocs cost back then.
 When we made sandles we'd replace the leather soles for the cost of materials and shipping. I had a black friend that was a shrimper. He wore his sandles always and I would replace the leather soles once a year. Another customer was a barber and I'd replace his once every 2 years. When I'd take the old leather soles off a ton of hair would fall out. The leather soles were cobbled with brass clinch nails, not sewn back then.

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