Workers at the militaristic firm had to wear laced shoes until the early 1980s.

FORBES: A shock to the system

Over them he buttoned a cuff-frayed and graying black cassock with its faint stink of him, waisted it with a hand-wide black cincture, snapped on a starched white Roman collar, and laced on his ankle-high black walking shoes.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'