![]() ![]() Only now is there talk of bringing them back. UK-owned Clarks wound up its NZ operation, and the Nomads trademark finally lapsed in 2003. Doc Martens had displaced them in teenage consciousness. ![]() It's 20 years, now, since Clarks in New Zealand began closing down its factories, spelling the end of the unique Nomad shoes. It turns out, if they had a concrete sole they'd still sell." "I used to say, they were so darn ugly they might sell. That weekend, he took orders for 11,664 pairs. The 73-year-old remembers one Friday afternoon when he was forced to break the news to his Christchurch and lower South Island retail clients that Clarks was putting a freeze on orders, effective first thing Monday, while its over-burdened factory caught up with demand. "But in New Zealand, they were a phenomenon." "You couldn't give away a shoe like that elsewhere," laughs Clarks' former South Island manager, Brian Walker. These shoes were sold nowhere else in the world. Remember this? This is what your Nomad's looked like new, back in the 1980s.
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