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Welcome to LOVE PLIMSOLLS – a new website which lists all types of Plimsoll available for you to purchase online. Search through our website for the latest Plimsolls, read customer reviews and comments and connect direct with retailers.

At LOVE PLIMSOLLS we are independent and therefore not tied into any one retailer. This means we are able to offer a huge range of plimsolls and can offer you non-biased advise on the best Plimsolls available.

Plimsolls avaialble include: black, white, canvas, grey, denim, slip-on, converse, cotton, lace up and many more…

History of the Plimsoll

A plimsoll shoe or simply plimsoll is a type of athletic shoe with a canvas upper and rubber sole, developed as beachwear in the 1830s by the Liverpool Rubber Company (later to become Dunlop). The shoe was originally, and often still is in parts of the UK, called a ’sand shoe’ and acquired the nickname ‘plimsoll’ in the 1870s. This name derived, according to Nicholette Jones’ book “The Plimsoll Sensation” because the colored horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship’s hull, or because, just like the Plimsoll line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.

As it was commonly used for corporal punishment in the British Commonwealth, where it was the typical gym shoe (part of the school uniform), plimsolling is also a synonym for a slippering. They were generally black or white with a few in brown.