YOSEMITE BOOT - NOIR/NOIRE Size:6 Vintage sports style ribbed neck

Vintage sports style ribbed neck and cuffs

washing smoothly without the need for ironing

Wythe's most iconic product

with a focus on durability and function

Made in the USA

YOSEMITE BOOT - NOIR/NOIRE Size:6 Vintage sports style ribbed neckThe very beginnings of Paraboot were born in 1908 in the Chartreuse mountains of eastern France. Rmy Alexis Richard, a shoemaker with aspirations beyond the hardy alpine footwear market, was making dainty, leather soled shoes for the Parisian lite. But after witnessing the potential of rubber at that time, a new technical material on a 1926 trip to the US, he brought it back to France with the idea of fitting classic leather uppers with cleated rubber