Wallabees were brown suede shoes with a beige, crepe-style squishy sole. These shoes were so ugly they were cool. Like old pioneer moccasins or bush shoes, these kickers took you back to the frontier days of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. While you might not have been killing bears when you were only three, in your Wallabees, you looked like you could.
Clarks, the folks who brought us the desert boot the decade before, were the masterminds behind this 70s earth-shoe for kids. They kicked off their popularity among the flower children hippies but became the absolute rage for the average adolescent.
They went perfect with the mud-brown cords and beige turtleneck that every kid seemed to be wearing.
Tons of Wallabee knock-offs came out, and any shoe with a brown suede top and a gummy, eraser-style sole came to be known as a wallabee.
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