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• #HUSH PUPPIES SHOE CRACK#

Economists, meanwhile, say that the gradual improvement in the city's economy during the course of the 1990s had the effect of employing those who might otherwise have become criminals.

#HUSH PUPPIES SHOE CRACK#

Criminologists point to the decline of the crack trade and the aging of the population. The New York City police will tell you that what happened in New York was that the city's policing strategies dramatically improved. In Brownsville and East New York, the sidewalks filled up again, the bicycles came back, and old folks reappeared on the stoops. Within five years, murders had dropped 64.3 percent to 770, and total crimes had fallen by almost half to 355,893. At some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn. In 1992, there were 2,154 murders in New York City and 626,182 serious crimes, with the weight of those crimes falling hardest in places like Brownsville and East New York. In 1995, the company sold 430,000 pairs of the classic Hush Puppies, and the next year it sold four times that, and the year after that still more, until Hush Puppies were once again a staple of the wardrobe of the young American male. While he was still painting and putting up shelves, the actor known as Pee-wee Herman walked in and asked for a couple of pairs. In Los Angeles, the designer Joel Fitzgerald put a 25-foot inflatable basset hound - the symbol of the Hush Puppies brand - on the roof of his Hollywood store and gutted an adjoining art gallery to turn it into a Hush Puppies boutique. Then another Manhattan designer, Anna Sui, called, wanting shoes for her show, as well. He wanted to use Hush Puppies in his spring collection. It made no sense to them that shoes that were so obviously out of fashion could make a comeback.īy the fall of 1995, things began to happen in a rush.

People were going to the Ma and Pa stores, the little stores that still carried them, and buying them up." Baxter and Lewis were baffled at first.

"We were being told," Baxter said, "that there were resale shops in the Village, in Soho, where the shoes were being sold.