Material Matters: Dad Shoes and Dad Shoe Accessories

It’s easy to dismiss the ‘dad shoe’ phenomenon as devoid of any useful footwear technology. The entire aesthetic is based on the suburban male stereotype of a man more adept at fixing lawn mowers than programming the VCR, a Hank Hill type who thinks ‘online streaming’ is something to do with fishing. But let’s not forget that that very same bloke was the first guy on the street to get a car phone in the 90s, and once upon a time, some of today’s dominant dad designs were at the top of their game too.