Presley first acquired the shoes after he performed the Carl Perkins hit ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, and wore the shoes for various interviews and public appearances throughout the 1950s, most notably on The Steve Allen Show in the US, on which he performed ‘Hound Dog’.
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When he was drafted into the US Army in the late 1950s, Presley gave the shoes to a friend.
As auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said, the shoes are what “you think of immediately when you talk about Elvis Presley” and they “transcend popular culture.”
He added: “When Elvis joined up for the American army, he had a get-together at Graceland. Elvis called some of these people upstairs and was giving away some of the clothes he didn’t think he’d need or want when he came back from the army. The gentleman concerned was Alan Fortas, Elvis’s branch manager and a friend of his.”
