Buster Brown Shoes

DESCRIPTION: "Does your shoe have a boy inside? What a funny place for a boy to hide. Does your shoe have a dog there too? Well, the boy is Buster Brown and the dog is Tige, his friend, and they're really just a picture, but it's fun to play pretend...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE:
KEYWORDS: clothes dog nonballad | shoe advertising picture
FOUND IN: US
RECORDINGS:
Sheila Klapper, "Buster Brown Shoes" (Piotr-Archive #627, recorded 08/03/2023)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "When Buster Brown Was One" (subject of Buster Brown)
NOTES [64 words]: "Buster Brown" was originally a comic strip; Wikipedia reports that it originated in 1902 and was created by Richard Felton Outcault. The Buster Brown Shoe followed in 1904. The shoes outlasted the comic strip, and ads featuring Buster were still running on televition as late as the 1990s. The obvious suspicion is that this was learned from the advertising, not from tradition. - RBW
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