NEW LEATHER SANDALS

LEATHER SANDALS:                                                                                                                         Island Sandals is owned by proprietor and creator Michael Mahnensmith. Michael learned his leather sandal making craft in Santa Monica, California from David Webb, who was making sandals for the Greek and Roman movies of the late 1950's and early 1960's. He rediscovered his sandal design from the sandals used 3,000 years ago by the desert warriors of King Solomon in Ethiopia.

Michael developed the idea while living in Catalina in the 1960's and copyrighted his leather sandal design in 1978.