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[wickedflea]

I like the people in my new department -- several good senses of humor, and there's even another guy who also wears Converse low-tops. Anyone with such stellar taste in footwear can't be all bad.

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[ex-sinnie785.livejournal.com]

Converse low tops rock.

LINEN low tops are even better.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I always liked Converse, but I always wore high tops -- never really considered the low tops. Then I discovered that Hunter Thompson wears them and, slavish admirer that I am, I immediately went out and scored a pair. Been wearin' em ever since. :)

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[ex-sinnie785.livejournal.com]

how long ago was that? the reason i ask is because i've been wearing low tops for...oh, about 8 yrs now...and i SWEAR they're not as "good" as they used to be. There's just something funky there....can't pinpoint it.

I still wear them, cuz they're cute and look wunnerful with a pair of jean shorts, t-shirt and ponytails....but if i were to go to a lotta walking place, i'd definitely wear something else.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, weird -- I've been wearing them for about eight years too! Pretty sure it was sometime in '94.

Anyway, I think I know what you're talking about. My latest pair -- bought about eighteen months ago -- is weird. The toes seem sort of like they're reversed, like they've put the left toe (the top white part, I mean) on the right shoe and vice versa.

I know Converse went through some financial troubles, and I want to say I heard something about them moving their manufacturing to Asia or licensing the name to other manufacturers in Asia or something like that -- some sort of dubious way of working things out... But the last pair I looked at in the store looked pretty authentic, so who knows?