Hush Puppies Women's Fashion Brand

Hush Puppies is an American internationally marketed brand of contemporary, casual footwear for men, women and children. The shoes have been described as 'the classic American brushed-suede shoes with the lightweight crepe sole'. Hush Puppies uses a Basset Hound named Jason as its logo, which are occasionally referred to as 'hush puppies' for that reason. Three identity facts in one paragraph: a footwear-only brand, a signature material and sole stated in a single quoted description, and a basset hound named Jason as the face of it all.

The Hush Puppies brand was founded in 1958 following extensive work by Wolverine to develop a practical method of pigskin tanning for the US military. Pause on that origin, because it is the brand's whole argument in embryo: the shoe exists because a tanning problem was solved. Pigskin, tanned practically, became brushed suede; a military materials project became a leisure shoe. The brand became instantly recognizable as a leisure casual staple of late 1950s and 1960s American life - a new kind of shoe, neither dress nor athletic, arriving exactly when American life was inventing casual, and becoming its footwear.

A Division of Wolverine World Wide

Hush Puppies is a division of Wolverine World Wide, which also carried this directory's onward link to Apparel Search's Wolverine World Wide company profile, carried here. The parent matters to a footwear buyer for practical reasons: a division of a large footwear group stands behind its lasts, its sizing consistency and its distribution at a scale an independent label cannot - the same shoe, in the same size, season after season, in shops internationally, since the brand is internationally marketed for men, women and children alike.

Even the culture footnotes point the same way - a staple so woven into American life that songwriters reached for it: Hush Puppy shoes are referenced in Jimmy Buffett's 'Come Monday', Oran 'Juice' Jones's 'The Rain', and Pete Townshend's 'Rough Boys'. Songs are a casual brand's truest archive: nobody writes a brushed-suede casual shoe into a lyric unless every listener already knows exactly what it looks and feels like. A women's shopper can trust that familiarity as a sizing and style constant - this is a known shoe, cut on known lasts, not an experiment.

Buying Brushed-Suede Casuals Well

Shop the signature first: brushed suede should be even in nap and colour, with no bald or shiny patches; the lightweight crepe sole the description promises should feel springy rather than dead under the heel, and the shoe should flex where the foot flexes. Fit casuals for the day they will live - feet swell, so try late in the day, in the socks they will be worn with, and walk a hard floor, not just carpet: a comfort shoe's whole promise is underfoot, and carpet hides a hard sole's truth. Contemporary and casual is the design brief, so judge styling by ease with a wardrobe, not by occasion drama.

Care keeps suede honest: brush the nap dry to lift dust, use a suede eraser on marks, protect new pairs with a suede spray before first wear, and never soak them - water spots suede and stiffens crepe's neighbour materials. Rest pairs between wearings so the lightweight sole and insole recover. The brand's official site is carried in References. Founded in 1958 out of Wolverine's pigskin-tanning work for the US military, instantly a staple of late-1950s and 1960s American life, and still Jason the basset hound's brand: Hush Puppies is bought on its one-sentence description - classic American brushed suede, lightweight crepe sole - and a pair that honours both halves of that sentence is the right pair.

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