Converse All-Stars- ever owned a pair?

[Beware the Beast Man]

I had to drop off Cathyclysmic's car at the auto mechanic today. I passed a shoe store on the way back, and noticed that they're trotting out the old All-Stars again. It seems they never go out of style. How many pairs of "Chucks" have you owned? What style and color?

I had several pairs of the basic black hi-tops, a pair of white hi-tops, blue low-tops, and a pair of Chuck Taylor All-Star Classics that were pretty awesome- black with all-black soles, toes, and logo.

[Trigger Hippie]

1. Green low-tops

My friend Lisa gave them to me eight years ago. I still have them.

:hi:

[AngryAmish]

2. Owned about fifteen pairs over the years

I used to caddy as a kid and they were the cheapest shoes I could get (shoes would last about two months). I just kept buying them because they were cheap and other shoes just looked ugly.

[Karenina]

44. 15 pairs in current use

My first pair of Jerry Buss purple high-tops that I wore when pregnant with my oldest child are in a box in the back of my schrank. The kid is now 22...

[Wetzelbill]

3. Hell yeah I did!

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Bought a pair of black hi-tops a few months ago.

Love Em.
I think I am going a bit retro.

[ET Awful]

5. I've owned black, the natural canvas ones (not the bleached white

more of a beige), and I had some red ones too I think.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. I've owned many pairs...

right now I have black high-tops and black low-tops.

[Wickerman]

yep, black hi-tops were my latest

I wore them into my 30's and damn but they were some crappy arch support, but I loved them all the same.

In a store in Alamo Heights, ritzy section of San Antonio, I had a snotty old thing tell me I was too old for them. Ha.

I told her young once, immature forever.

[seemunkee]

7. Nike owns Converse now

Buy the No Sweat shoes. They even have a special Code Pink shoe
http://www.nosweatapparel.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CPS&Category_Code=NSS

[KG]

8. not since elem. school. never liked the way they fit.

[GOPisEvil]

18. They're too flat for my feet.

:(

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. I owned a pair of yellow high tops

back in the late 80s, but I learned something really important.

When you are a chick and have size 9 feet, so you keep tripping over your own shoes and kissing pavement, this is NOT a good look for you!

:blush:
FSC

[scarlet_owl]

10. I had lots of pairs of the black hi-tops and one pair of pink.

[Mutley]

11. I had a pair of red high tops when I was a kid.

I've been looking for the same style, but I can't seem to find them.

[asthmaticeog]

12. I've had TONS.

Back in the '80s when they were ten bucks a pair, I had 'em in an astonishing array of colors, including camouflage. But the black ones always looked the best. I currently own none, as $45 for a basic canvas sneaker is fucking larceny. For not much more money, I could go to the skate-shop and get a pair of Vans that would take *way* longer to fall apart.

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. I've had my Vans for over 3 years.

That's an eon in shoe time, especially since I usually wear only one pair until they fall apart.

[non sociopath skin]

13. My favourite sneakers.

I have red and white hi-tops and blue and black low right now ...

The Skin

[vi5]

15. My first pair were red high tops in 1983.......

They lasted a year or so and then I switched to white high tops. Another year and then around '85 I made the permanent switch to black high tops and have probably owned 10-15 pairs in the 20 years since.

[Debbi801]

16. Nope. But I had Jack Percells...

LOL Anyone else remember them? I remember that I had to buy the "boys" jack percells because the girl ones weren't cool. :-)

[Cathyclysmic]

17. a white pair

I had a guy roommate at the time who wore the same shoe size as me, so together we wore them enough to wear a hole in the sole...I miss them:cry:

[youspeakmylanguage]

19. If you're interested in a pair of classic Chucks, check out NO SWEAT...

100% Union-made!

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. I'm not. This is just a nostalgia thread. But thanks.

[SmokingJacket]

46. That's a great website, by the way.

I think union-made clothing is worth paying for.

[Theres-a]

21. I had a pair of black high tops

I wore them forever.

[MissMillie]

22. My son just bought 2 pair of high tops

He loves 'em. I think they make his feet look big.

[JimmyJazz]

23. I never owned chucks!

I've worn a few pairs of "docs" in my day, but never chucks :cry:

[GalleryGod]

40. That's Not a crime.-It was a long time back that Chucks were #1

:shrug:

[Shell Beau]

24. I never ever felt the urge to own any pair of Converse.

I don't really know why. I just don't like them.

[tibbir]

25. I recently bought my first pair

They're pink and gray. I've gotten a lot of compliments on them and I love them.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Yep!

Our basketball shoe in high school was exactly that shoe. Freshman year we still wore the old Chuck Taylors. But, we went low cut, brown suede in sophomore and junior year. (I left HS after 3 years to go to college, so i don't know what they wore the next year.)

My all-time favorite shoes for ball, though, were either my Adidas Italias (the white ones with the green stripes) or my Onizuka Tigers. (Onizuka adopted a more "american" sounding name in the 80's. I forget which one. New Balance?)
The Professor

[GOPisEvil]

27. Asics.

Kiachiro Onizuka is the founder of Asics. Interestingly, Mr. Onizuka is the founder of the Foundation for Support of the U.N.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Thanks!

I knew they changed the name. Those were really good basketball shoes. Played in an industrial league after college with those shoes for 3 years. Same shoes. Three times a week. 3 years! That's a good athletic shoe.
The Professor

[GalleryGod]

39. GAC! You're so right! "Low cut Chucks" were standard issue.

A pair of Chucks every August for the coming school year!
They could take that playground asphalt every day-all Summer Long!

Good times. Before Gatorade!

GG:beer:

[no name no slogan]

28. have had several

black hightops, white hightops and black lowtops. I think I like the black lowtops the best, but they're not the best shoes for my feet (long, narrow and archless).

[Drifter]

30. I used to wear Orange "Chucks"

The only place I could find them was on the SU campus (Syracuse University Orangemen), Get it ?

Cheers
Drifter

[Coventina]

31. I had a pair of pink High Tops but my cat peed on them

I washed them a bunch of times, but I could never get the smell out.

:-(

That was many years ago. I should really replace them because I miss them.

[Rising Phoenix]

32. 4 pairs

in high school two pairs of black low tops, one of which I only wore to concerts and had all these freaky people sign. A pair of blue high tops and, most recently, black and pink pair.

[FLSurfer]

33. They were the only shoes I wore as a kid.

I remember my mom asking "Black or white?", "low or high?", "what size?"
Before she would go to buy my brother and I shoes.
I didn't even realize there were other choices til I was old enough to buy my own.

[leftofthedial]

34. I've always owned several pairs

black, red, green, purple, white, blue, pink, tie-dye . . .

I wear them nearly every day.

[GalleryGod]

41. Good to hear! "Chucks" roll on !

:yourock:

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

35. I've been wearing them for six years now

white, blue or black low tops that is.

[frylock]

36. i've owned chuck's in black, white..

green, orange, and burgandy. All hi-tops.

[tsakshaug]

37. yes

HS basketball "team shoe" was white chucks with Red laces. I wore high tops, we could choose. this was back in the mid 70's, before there were too many choices

[sakabatou]

38. Black high tops

[progmom]

42. here are mine

[xmas74]

43. black, white and red.

Those shoes lasted twice as long as any other pair that I ever owned.

[khashka]

45. Only shoes I ever wear

Black hi-tops, white hi-tops, turquoise, lavender, red and pink hi-tops.

I always wear them mismatched, which always elicits the comment "I bet you have another pair just like that". Hardy-har-har.


Khash.

[DS1]

47. rubber with fabric glued to it. absolutely useless as a shoe

I don't know why anyone would buy that overpriced shit

[Burma Jones]

49. Had a girlfriend, PETA member, said they were a good alternative

But when we went hiking in the Gaspe, she thought differently.....

[Burma Jones]

48. Had em in White, Black, Red, Yellow and Pink

hard to find size 13 in pink...