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CORPORATE SHILLING - DOC MARTENS IS 50

Doc Martens, according to their own literature the preferred footwear of "skinheads, punks, grungers, rejects, outcasts and rebels from the fringes of society," were created 65 years ago by a Wehrmacht doctor on a ski trip.

Fifteen years later, they were bought by an English bootier, scrubbed of their German medical history, and sold to mailmen and factory workers in the Midlands. In honor of this occasion, Doc Martens is throwing a 50th-anniversary party in London with the Black Lips and you're invited. You, of course, meaning whichever of you signs up for this raffle offering free airfare and accommodations and such on Doc Martens' facebook page and is selected as the winner. Congratulations and enjoy yourself, you.