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The Footwear Industry Keeps Erasing Its Own History, Including Mine

I finally built an archive nobody else can take away. Now it needs you.

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Nick Engvall
Jul 01, 2026
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I’ve been behind on newsletters over the last week because I’ve been finishing up the details on something I have wanted to create for longer than I’d like to admit and it’s finally ready for your eyes.

Over the last twenty years, I’ve built a lot of things in this industry that no longer exist.

A lot of what I wrote for Sole Collector was lost to acquisi…

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