Moon Boot is a snow boot brand first created as après-ski wear in the early 1970s by manufacturer Tecnica Group of Giavera del Montello in Italy.[1] They became a popular fad in the years following the Apollo 11 moon landing, and resurfaced as a retrofuturistic fashion trend in the early 2000s.[2][3] They received additional exposure through the nerdy protagonist of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite.[2][4] Starting in 2011 they have been produced in Ukraine, at the rate of some 700,000 per year.[1]