These deck shoes are made of MOON Fabric. The MOON Equipped Logo was used until late 60s, until 70s when the Yellow MOON Logo started to get popular, so from that fact it may be considered a late 60s item, isn’t that a good looking pair of shoes? There were many MOON items that were made in Japan at that time. May be these shoes too are a "made in Japan item". Japan then was still cheap labor to USA with 1$ being traded at 360 yen.
Collecting MOON items that were made in Japan has become a little boom in USA. Items like T’shirts and Shoes with soft material were made in Japan and they are not many left there. I Found some MOON can badges that were made in Japan in the event held at Kyushu in Japan last year and was able to get some.
In addition to that, this cowboy hat with MOON Logo was so popular in the late 60s as either MOON Logo sticker on the plastic models or on this cowboy hat in Japan. I remember my brother and friends used to wear this hat and drive the small car (360cc). It wasn’t a matter of looking good or not, it was such a huge boom at the time. Trends are just like that.
Back to the story, in 1986 when we started MOONEYES, first product made were these MOON Equipped Logo and Yellow MOON fabrics. That was because I wanted to have shirts and shoes made by that material only for myself. We ordered VANS Shoes in USA to make special shoes with MOONEYES material and this became MOONEYES/VANS Shoes. VANS would make a small quantity if we took material to them, so with that quantity they made it right there Made in USA. We use to have these shows for mens, ladies, kids and babies for my daughter but only few are left. Rarest rare MOONEYES/VANS Shoes.
We would like to make them again but it is not possible as quantity required are too big nowadays to reproduce it.
