A strange path, perhaps, but one that wound up being followed by another couple of core Clarks styles not long afterward. “That happens with the Trek and the Wallabee,” Crumplin says.

But when you think of Clarks, you got the Wallabee, you got the Desert Boot, you got the [Desert] Trek. It has got so many ... I knew that side of the story was never told. When I seen that ...