Our 120th Anniversary

William Slack founded our business on 26th August 1902 which also his 19th birthday. William was employed as a shoe factory hand stamper at the Mansfield Shoe Company and was considered a good worker often finding himself waiting at his machine because of slower progress upstream.  As a result he was able to operate three […]

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Our Finland Sub-Arctic Adventure

photo of Ruka ski resort finland

In January 2020 we spent a week in Ruka-Kuusamo which is situated in Northern Ostrobothnia, in the north-east of Finland, bordering Russia. The area is located at 66 degrees North, so not technically in the Arctic but part of the Sub-Arctic and at least landscape-wise, a part of Lapland.  Average daytime temperatures for January are -14C with just […]

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PARAJUMPERS

Our PARAJUMPERS Winter season collection for men & women is available now at our Mansfield shop.  Order from our website – we deliver worldwide. PARAJUMPERS was born in Italy in 2006, thanks to the cooperation between Ape S.P.A. and designer Massimo Rossetti, who has many years of experience as a designer of outerwear.  A meeting with a serving member of the […]

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