Stuff Girls Like

They have always been around but they have been in and out of fashion.  No other shoe has lasted as long as the converse shoes.  When I grew up these shoes were appealing to gangsters that was in the ear especially if the were white and the were cleaned until they were radiant.

Fashion changed and they became neglected and the fashion was controlled by the Nike’s and Reeboks.  If you were a kid walking in any ghetto with these shoes, you risked being slapped around rather than being robbed just because they drew attention and were not hip.  Converse itself went for producing the big basketball shoes and was in vogue for a little while.

But when the public tired of the ever changing fashion in running shoes and fashion went back to the retro look, with companies like Addidas and Puma going back to their earlier editions, Converse turned around and saw that people were buying the shoes for ten dollars.  Then they started getting the shoes back into the department stores and selling them for five times the price.

The beauty is that they can use the classic design and you can apply all sorts of colours to attract girls to them, there was a time when you could get them only in black and white but you can put any colour on them,  Just this weekend I saw red ones with a shiny leather surface, it looked slick.

What does it say about the state of modern computer aided design and well paid designers when a company can be on its knees selling their products at $10 and they can turn around and see that retro is back in fashion, let us put a premium on the price and laugh all the way to the bank?  Even if fashion changes and they run into problems they can always sell the shoes for $10 again, my grandchildren will still be wearing Converse low top shoes.