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.
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?
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Date: 2002-07-15 04:32 pm (UTC)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?