Those familiar with the Solatio brand will know how popular these shoes were back then, when skinhead fashion moved on to smarter styling of the suedeheads and smoothies in the early seventies. Enter the Solatio 107 Boxtop which became a must have shoe in London, matched with a Crombie coat and red socks. Worn to the backbeat of Ska, Motown and Rock, these styles were a big deal in those formative years. The Crossover 102 became the Northern Soul shoe of choice, worn on the dancefloors of the Midlands and the North. Ideal for dancing with the flat leather soles and wide profile, they coordinated with the super wide trousers of the time. Throughout the seventies Solatio shoes influenced the men’s fashion scene in th UK and their personality is etched in a generation’s memory.