MILITARY CANVAS TRAINING SHOES Denim Jackets and a 40s-style bell-shaped zipper

and a 40s-style bell-shaped zipper

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The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is a motorcycle rally held annually in Sturgis

During the Vietnam War

particularly among young people in postwar America

MILITARY CANVAS TRAINING SHOES Denim Jackets and a 40s-style bell-shaped zipperThe MILITARY CANVAS TRAINING SHOES are a high top sneaker made from a cotton canvas with a vulcanized rubber sole. They take their reference from footwear issued to the United States Army during the 1940s. Though the surviving documentation from this period is limited, archive photography and vintage sources show us that multiple types of canvas training shoes were procured for use in domestic training camps across the United States during the Second