Zoe Yates: Dr. Martens Fashionable Expansion
In the early 1900's Benjamin Griggs and Septimus Jones set up a boot making partnership in Northamptonshire creating boots for factory workers and the military, but Dr. Martens as we know it today wasn't formed until much later. In the 1960's the then Chairmen of the company Bill Griggs licensed the famous air cushioned sole from a German inventor and the famous Dr. Marten 1460 boot was born.