About Old Friend Shoes

Jim Klavano founded Old Friend Footwear’s parent company, Australia Unlimited, Inc., in 1981, after an impetuous act turned into a life-long journey between two continents. Fresh out of college, Jim talked a fraternity brother into emigrating to Australia with little more than a sense of adventure and a burning desire to see that far off country. He was hooked.

He founded Australia Unlimited not knowing what he would do but certain his destiny resided somewhere within and between Seattle and Sydney. At the time, sheepskins were being used for medical purposes to prevent bedsores in bedridden patients, but also in neo-natal wards for premature babies. The sheepskin helped the preemies thrive because it prevented body heat loss. Jim imported the medical sheepskins and sold them to Children’s Hospital in Seattle (then Children’s Orthopedic Hospital). Later he imported sheepskin car seat covers that he designed.

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