For Bare Feet Inc

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Company History We at For Bare Feet would like to thank everyone for our 21 years of success. We look forward with great excitement to many more years together. We have been a family run business for 21 years. Now, with our twenty-first anniversary year upon us, it's time to reflect on our past, proudly acknowledge our beginnings, and share our story with you. Twenty one years ago, Sharon Rivenbark, a fifth grade school teacher, started a sock manufacturing company with $1200 she borrowed from her parents - enough to buy one antique banner knitting machine and some shop space in Nashville, Indiana. The business was to be for her son, Tim, who had to drop out of Indiana University at age 18 because of a brain tumor. Doctors had told Sharon that Tim would, in time, become mentally handicapped. So, Sharon started the sock business so her son would have a place in the world, a business of his own. The unique designs and patterns that Sharon knit into the socks were an instant success. Their appeal prompted numerous shop owners from other cities who were traveling through Nashville on vacation to request that Sharon sell the socks to them on a wholesale basis for resale in their shops.

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