Before Walter White made Clark’s Wallabees the meth chemist’s shoe of choice, Samuel Beckett figured out that they offered a good deal of arch support. Yes, they look strange, but then again Beckett once wrote and directed a play in which the only character was a talking mouth and locked the doors so the audience couldn’t escape. The Wallabee’s bulky shape somehow fit in with Beckett’s heavy tweeds and dark turtlenecks and surgeon’s eyeglasses. Introduced in 1965, The Wallabees are Clark’s second most popular model after the famous Desert Boot—which made the Wallabees all the more appropriate for Ireland’s second most famous 20th century novelist.