Frye Boots
On March 10th, 1863, John A. Frye opened the doors of a small shop on Elm Street, in Marlboro, Massachusetts. The shoes he made weren’t icons of fashion or fanciful in style. They served a simple purpose: to ease the daily working lives of the hundreds of factory workers in that small New England town. When homesteading sparked New England families to head west in the mid and late 1800s, many of those pioneers wore Frye boots along the journey.
In time, John Frye’s family would grow and, along with it, The Frye Company would expand. Each generation of Frye dedicated themselves to the art of shoemaking, creating new patterns, discovering new materials, and even inventing shoe-making machinery. Their fervor for the process of crafting footwear as durable as it is beautiful has been their company’s benchmark, ever since.
With Frye’s steadfast commitment to quality and painstaking attention to detail, it takes more than 190 steps to make one pair of Frye boots, and a similar set of processes to make the accessories. They use the highest quality leathers, all tanned with natural oils, which distinguish their products. The brand has developed demanding standards for their materials and craftsmanship, and their experienced team of shoemakers and designers work diligently to ensure these standards are met.
Frye is the oldest continuously operating footwear brand in America. They are one of only a few shoe companies who still continue to make products here in America. Frye is rooted in American history, having been worn by pioneers and cowboys in the late 1800s, American soldiers at war, and as part of the celebration of life and music in recent times.
Frye’s history and heritage is told in every stitch of every shoe they’ve made for nearly 150 years: across cultural shifts and changes in fashion, for generation upon generation. Now, Frye boots are accessorized and envied on city streets, worked and roughed up on country roads, and chosen above all others for their inimitable style and uncompromising quality.
And yet, despite their reach and success as a boot maker, the mission of Frye – to make the best-looking, hardest-working, longest-lasting shoes and leather goods – hasn’t changed since their days on Elm Street.
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