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"  Doctor Martens, as we know them now, were introduced in Britain in 1960. Like most &amp;quot;heritage&amp;quot; brands, they were first embraced by blue collar workers. In each coming decade though they quickly became associated with counterculture movements\u2014punk in the 1970s, New Wave in the 1980s, and, of course, grunge in the 1990s. The black leather, metal grommets, laces and clunky rubber heel make for the perfect uniform for rebellion. Towards the late &amp;#039;90s and early 2000s the boots fell mostly out of favor as more streamlined shoe styles took over\u2014perhaps all of those feisty teens grew up and their predecessors fell into more apathetic lifestyles.  And now Doc Martens are primed for a renaissance\u2014an illustrious comeback. When most people think of the boot it&amp;#039;s with that &amp;#039;90s look in mind, paired with ditzy floral dresses, lingerie as daywear or mom jeans and moto jackets\u2014 seen on the decade&amp;#039;s icons, the waifish Winona Ryder and the brash Courtney Love. To note, a similar advent already occurred last summer when Birkentocks suddenly experienced a high-fashion revival, on the feet of editors and It girls, worn with everything from Chlo\u00E9 trousers to The Row dresses. It didn&amp;#039;t take long for designers to give the comfort-minded slides high fashion interpretations\u2014fur lined at C\u00E9line, studded at Giambattista Valli, floral at Givenchy. The options, if you so choose, become to either embrace the original (i.e. go &amp;quot;normcore&amp;quot;) or up the proverbial style ante with a high ticket version. And now you can you either wear your original Docs with pride or, come fall, take the leap into Alexander McQueen&amp;#039;s steel-toed fur rendition, Calvin Klein&amp;#039;s ponyhair boot, Coach&amp;#039;s low-top, shearling-lined lace up or C\u00E9line&amp;#039;s ankle-length slip-on. Good design at its purest is about the perfect mix of utility and style. And at their core, Doc Martens and Birkenstocks were created for the everyman or woman to walk far sans pain, ideally. That they became coveted fashion items at all was purely by chance. When a time-honored classic is placed in the talented hands of notable designers\u2014like those above\u2014it can become something else, something bigger, hopefully prettier, and more than likely, more expensive. The choice, dear consumer, is yours. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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