After the cultural shift
of the late 1960s, boat shoes were considered niche footwear, often associated
with the prep-style wardrobes of wealthy families, whose children attended
college at schools along the Eastern Seaboard. Due to the counter-culture of
the era, boat shoes, along with other prep-style fashion staples, were seen as
footwear that denoted a privileged, Eastern upbringing due to their yachting
heritage, and were shunned by most mainstream college students and young
adults. However, due to the cultural insulation of fraternities, many
conservative Greek college students continued to wear Sperrys as part of a
traditional prep-style wardrobe. Top-Siders were also a must-have staple of the
prep resurgence of the 1980s.
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