Gypsy Creams
Tuf
Woman's Weekly / 16th May 1969
A blatant appeal to nostalgia. Does anyone remember Tuf shoes?
5 Comments
Jam Shambles on 8 July 2011 @ 10pm
I don’t remember Tuf shoes either.
We weren’t allowed anything as fancy as sneakers, we had to wear those black slip-on gym plimsolls for PE. Yuck.
Jam Shambles on 8 July 2011 @ 10pm
This is quite interesting: http://www.fightingcobbler.co.uk/fc5.htm Apparently Tuf shoes played a big part in the near demise of shoe repair businesses in the late 60s.
Tanya Jones on 11 July 2011 @ 11am
I guess they would have done, it’s not something you necessarily think about, is it? Thanks for the link! And yes, I had those horrible plimsolls too, along with the airtex polo shirt and gym knickers! No wonder I hated PE…
Charlie Albright on 31 July 2011 @ 9am
The Tuf shoes for boys had a ‘secret’ direction compass in the heel (I think) which if you ever lost your way home, you could take off your shoe and ……..erm.
It was one of those things you just had to have in the one upmanship stakes, but heaven knows why now?
Liz on 4 July 2011 @ 5pm
I don’t remember Tuf shoes but I’m old enough to remember a time when you brought sneakers to wear in gym class and wore regular shoes the rest of the day. Hard to imagine that now.