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 When a small footwear company turns into a major shoe supplier the world usually stands up and takes notice especially if the shoes fill a void in the market. Bates Footwear started selling dress shoes in 1885. The company had a keen sense of understandable fashion as well as conservative tastes. Retail sales increased each season. The company made a commitment to keep focused on innovative shoe technology as well as new manufacturing techniques. Those ingredients made the Bates footwear line attractive as well as practical.
Bates turned their 19th century expertise into 20th century success when the company decided to focus on supplying the military market with well constructed footwear in the 1960s. The Navy gave them an overwhelming reception when the first Navy military oxford was introduced. The acceptance was greater than anyone expected. Bates Navy Uniform Oxford was the catalyst for the development of a whole line of military footwear for every branch of the armed services. The success of the military line instigated the development of a civilian uniform line of Bates Boots for law enforcement officers and other civil services.
By the 1970s Bates was serving the basic needs of men and women in uniform not just in the United States but in other countries as well. Bates Boots are now worn by military organizations in over sixty countries. Bates is now the largest supplier of footwear to the US government as well as to public service departments in every state. The Department of Defense relies on Bates for combat boots and shoes because research and development is a never ending process in the Bates organization. Serving the basic needs of the country has always been their number one priority
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