• Black top with some batches smeared with mud right out of the box. Recent batches in popular sizes are now black but the oldest ones are still brushed with mud like the one below, which is shown in case anyone gets a muddy one and panicks. More recent batches look like these, this side view and this top.
• Blobbed with white paint for you to add your own logo with a felt pen. A spiral is traditional in Canada where people like to spiral-out US corporate logos, but you could add your own initials or a proposed tattoo or nothing at all if you like.
• Organic canvas upper woven from hemp stalk fibres in Romania for Ecolution - a company proud of its employment record.
• Made in Portugal - a country with courts votes & free hospitals. Employment conditions of staff involve long hours in quite a pleasant place with low living costs. There is a good union reference for the factory. Unsocial hours are seldom worked.
• Early batches were an experiment in crowd-sourced footwear. There's a sheet about how to "rethink the cool" [graphics] older batches include a share certificate in a buying group and a leaflet gushing with suggestions about how a fashion for blacking-out big brands can invigorate people re-open a bicycle factory or at least a coffee shop.
• Red spot for kicking Captain Blythe off the Bounty - or whoever similar comes to mind.
  One review said "The red spots sometimes wear off"

PortugalUK UK -UK - Amnesty - Human Rights Watch - EthicalTradeorg #P - Clean Clothes -Hub

UK          2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12
EU          34   35.5 36.7 38   39   40.5 42   43   44.2  45.5  47  
US male     3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   11    12    13
US female   3½   4½   5½   6½   7½   8½   9½   10½  11½   12½   13½