What Redback is known for

Sydney work-boot maker founded 1989 by the Cloros family, whose bootmaking trade traces to Greek immigrant brothers who began selling handmade boots at Surry Hills markets in the 1920s. Known for the classic Australian elastic-sided, pull-on work boot, still made in Sydney.

Redback Boots was founded in 1989 by the Cloros family in Sydney, though the family's bootmaking roots go back further: brothers Stanley, Bill, and John Cloros left Greece for Australia in the early 1920s, bringing boot- and shoemaking skills, and began fashioning boots sold at Surry Hills markets in inner Sydney. Redback's core product is the Australian work boot: a leather boot with elastic-sided gussets and pull tabs, allowing quick on/off with a snug, laced-boot-like fit. The company still manufactures in Sydney at a time when many competitors have moved production overseas, and its boots are used by tradespeople, farmers, and military personnel in Australia and internationally.