DG ML, I CAN TELL YOU WHEN I WAS WORKING AT DILLARD’S AND THEY HAD A VENDOR’S SALES MEETING, OF SHOE VENDORS GIVING REAL INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR SHOES, WHEN SPERRY TALKED ABOUT HOW SPERRY DESIGNED THEIR SHOES AFTER LOOKING AT HIS DOG’S PAWS (BECAUSE THE DOG DID NOT SLIP) BEING ABLE TO WALK ON ICE AND SNOW, AND SAW ALL THE TINY LINES AND GROOVES IN THE PADS OF THE DOG’S PAWS, SPERRY DESIGNED THEIR BOAT SHOES, SORT OF BASED ON THAT – AND I LISTENED, AND HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN IT! IN ACTUALITY, I LISTENED TO ALL OF THEM, I FOUND IT INTERESTING! AND, WHEN DILLARDS HAD A SALE, AND THERE WAS A PAIR OF SPERRY SHOES IN MY SIZE, I BOUGHT THEM (FOR $ 11, I STILL REMEMBER), AND DID NOT WEAR THEM – FOR DECADES, AND, STILL HAVE THEM! :($!