Odds are you have owned a pair of Chuck Taylors. Your parents probably did, too. Even their parents probably rocked Chucks. Everyone from celebrities to the average citizen wears them … but why? mr_jasonjones on a staple in fashion and culture:
I couldn’t tell you the first time I wore a pair of Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars. I do know that I haven’t stopped wearing them. And neither have many, many others worldwide.
As I viewed my collection of Chucks, I wondered why I, and so many other people, continue to wear them. It’s nothing fancy: canvas with a rubber sole. It’s inexpensive — you won’t find a standard pair of Chucks sold on the secondary market for hundreds of dollars. Yet, a shoe that retails for about $65 remains a staple in fashion and culture.“It’s still the greatest shoe of all time: it transcends culture,” said Jeremy Kirkland, host of the “Blamo!” podcast, which discusses aspects of fashion.
“We always want to look like someone else for better or worse, and there’s always a cool picture of someone wearing Chucks,” Kirkland said. “It’s the eternal shoe mainly because it’s also been in films and TV. The bad guys wore Chucks; the good guys wore Chucks. It’s more or less invincible.” Bryant’s idea, however, wasn’t new. Converse did this with the All-Star in 1957. The shoe went low at the recommendation of the Harlem Globetrotters, and this version caught on not only with basketball players but also with surfers who found the shoe easy to take off at the beach.“We did it for a very basketball-centric reason,” Converse archivist Sam Smallidge said. “Players want more ankle mobility.
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