A QUICKIE LOOK IN MY CLOSET
My Family’s Obsession with Buster Brown Shoes
Saddle Shoes & Maryjanes reigned supreme
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3 min readFeb 9, 2022
A friend of mine once circulated this question on Facebook:
“Does anyone remember getting a new pair of shoes for the first day of school?”
My response: “Hell, yeah! I do!!”
She came to the right person. My father (David Kogen) was an executive with Brown Shoe Company for eons. They even named a shoe after him called “The Kogey.”
This is a photo of my father in his Empire State Building office in New York City. From the colorful array of shoes and sandals, we can surmise that this was a snappy Spring/Summer line.
Turns out, when I hit 7-years-old, I was “model size,” which was lay term for “shoe sample size.” Can you believe??? I was thrilled. My wardrobe suddenly expanded to a preposterous amount of shoes for any first grader. The bounty, that I carefully lined…
