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A near-death experience on a sailboat inspired their creation back in 1935, and Sperry Top-Siders have been fending off imitators ever since.
 Sperry's Top-Sider Battles a Flotilla of Imitators www.adweek.com As legend has it, Paul Sperry—Dartmouth man, World War I naval officer—was sailing his cutter Sirocco on a cold day in 1935 when he nearly slipped on the wet deck and killed himself. |
