Salt-Water® Sandals and Sun-San® Sandals are premium leather sandals produced by Hoy Shoe Company, Inc. Walter Hoy founded Hoy Shoe Company in 1944, due to leather rationing during WWII. Using the scrap leather from the manufacturing of military boots, he created sandals for children and Sun-San Salt-Water Sandals were born. After the end of WWII, he began making them in several different styles and colors. Three generations later, women and children are still wearing the same styles their parents wore before them.