Nike buys Chuck Taylor

compare that to the last pair of docs i bought about 3 or 4 years ago which are still maintaining the properties of boots, i suppose, but are swiss cheese

For years, the company had production facilities in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, and Mexico.

So I guess Mexico was the one place other than the US that they used to be produced.

This is from a 2001 article in the Cape Cod Chronicle <http://www.capecodchronicle.com/column_020101.htm>:

The company is also closing plants in the United States and Mexico and selling its North Reading headquarters building for $15 million. Half of Converse’s products are already manufactured in Asia; financial analysts said one of the company’s downfalls was its insistence on keeping part of its manufacturing operations in the United States after most other sneaker makers had shifted to cheaper foreign markets.

Question: do you prefer to sport yours sparkly clean or filthy as hell?

http://www.boomspeed.com/starguitar69/converse.jpg

My brother-in-law painted them for me as a birthday present at the height of my White Stripes obsession a couple of years ago. They make good conversation-starters. :-) I like that they're all dirty now but it's pretty sad that the colours are all faded.

http://wizardishungry.com/hash/2005/6/9/6562a710d5fb25cd51b9f711fd059c62.jpg

SO REFRESHING:

http://wizardishungry.com/hash/2005/6/9/c856b5ce258431d6cd9fdd0579d09f24.jpg

What about like, the throwback Nikes or Reebok's line of DJ shoes?

My doctor told me they're horrible for your feet, wearing only Chucks and Docs for years on end are probably why I have a pinched nerve in my foot that occasionally flairs up (planar fascitis?) and makes it painful to walk.

i put arch support thingies in mine when i wore them.

chucks are bad shoes, fall apart easily, expensive and are uncomfortable. also i find the people that wear them usually lack imagination and character. this does not make me a shoe snob.

I said I would continue to steal Chuck Taylor knockoffs from charity stores when this was originally posted, and I have kept this promise.

how many pairs have you stolen?

i support your decision to wear knockoffs as they are probably less than half the $54.99 retail OVERprice of actual chucks.

I have had two. When the first pair wore out, I wore them into the store and wore new ones out (of the store).

chucks are bad shoes, fall apart easily, expensive and are uncomfortable. also i find the people that wear them usually lack imagination and character. this does not make me a shoe snob.

-- chaki, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

qft tho i think cuet girls can pull off the lowtop look sometimes

PS, this was in a really poor phase.

But I don't really have any ethics system anyway.

i revived this thread because i am defending myself after therza called me a snob after stating these opinions:

"that is because you are a shoe snob.

-- tehresa, Monday, October 8, 2007 3:54 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Link"

NOT TRUE

PEOPLE THAT BUY CHUCKS ARE SHOE SNOBS

That's also not really true.

I bought chucks because they let you build custom ones on their website now. Also, nobody else really makes a black leather sneaker with pinstripe stitching.

vans suck now too

chaki otm, Chucks 'r' Balls! You cannot do any laborious tasks in them with near the ease of actual sneakers or tennis shoes. Have you ever seen footage of someone saving people from a burning airplane that has crashed and if, so, has the Hero been wearing chuck taylors? NO. Perhaps a would-be hero in Chucks tried but couldn't swing it because their shoes caught on fire and started to melt at the same time.

They also look nice. xpost

and I am generally a shoe snob because I beat shoes to death and have to work to find brands that don't disintegrate after six months

i will rep for jack purcells. those are comfy, well put together shoes. i dont buy shoes on websites. i like to try them on.

I have kicked a bully in the chest wearing Chuck Taylors and done lots of other heroic shit. It's the wearer, not the shoe!

also if you guys can help:

NEED NEW SHOES!! please PAYPAL to johnnyradpa✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧!!

chucks go with pretty much every informal outfit and dont commit you to a shoe-based stereotype... also theyre not so uncomfy if you get inserts.

in middle school i used to have chucks covered in neon green tennis ball felt. i thought they were cool. in fact, they might have been if i hadn't worn them with my matching red sweatshirt/sweatpant combo, or my plaid tyrolean hat or the huge plastic frame glasses i bought b/c i thought they looked cool on the kid with downs syndrome.

we would have been friends, probably :/

<I>and dont commit you to a shoe-based stereotype</I>

i highly disagree with this. they are not cheap anymore. also there are tons of cultural baggage that come along with wearing chucks.

chucks go with pretty much every informal outfit and dont commit you to a shoe-based stereotype... also theyre not so uncomfy if you get inserts.

-- max, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:01 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

xpost - chuck wearers totally fit a shoe-based stereotype, man.

but most people wear knockoffs or get deals!

that is not true and you know it.

Explain to me the cultural baggage that Chuck Taylors alone carry.

kurdt rip

yeah, roxy did you not live in the 1990s?

punk rock

they used to be $10 up until about 94-95. now they are close to $60.

"baggage"

people used to buy them because they did not cost alot.

so is my weed :(

chaki, i was actually thinking about buying a pair to replace my falling-apart pumas, but now that i read this thread i think i will not.

people used to buy them until they graduated to doc martens, too.

Dude even in Mexico they are like $17 wtf.

a lot of punks wear chucks but so do a lot of rappers... a lot of everyone wears chucks except like... jock/preppie dudes. and shoe snobs.

name rappers who wear chucks.

remy why would you spend $59.99 on chucks when at sporty la (locations all over the southland) you could get some phatttt pumas for $39.99??

http://www.sportiela.com/store/product.php?productid=17485&cat=280&page=3

WE WILL BROWBEAT YOU INTO HATING CHUCKS OK HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

up here in sf the rappers wear vans as this song will explain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLcB16SUGtk

They're over $50 now?? I don't think I paid more than...$35 for mine at YRB a few years back? Can't remember. But I think I'd remember 50+.

Mostly because that would be AN INSANE AMOUNT OF MONEY to pay for canvas sneaks. Although I do love Chucks as the default sneaker.

i bought 3 pairs of sneakers last week for $110, one of which is a pair of converse slip-ons that are basically vans ripoffs. those were the cheapest, at $19.99, probably cheaper than whatever chucks were available at the store (i didn't look).

name rappers who wear chucks.

http://www.soundvenue.com/upload/nyheder/2004-05/thegame_med_20040506_top.jpg

looks like the classic chuck high top is $41.00 from the website which is still redick

http://www.converse.com/zproductdetails.asp?zcatid=2&zsubcatid=4&zgenid=&leftnavid=1&leftnavsubid=2&sku=M9160&bhfv=8&bhfx=9.0%20%20r28&bhbb=1&bhqs=1

only in cali where we riot not rally to live and die
in LA we wear chucks not ballys thats right

Your arguments are still st00p, chaki.

:)

lowtops are $94.00????

http://www.converse.com/zproductdetails.asp?zcatid=2&zsubcatid=13&zgenid=&leftnavid=1&leftnavsubid=4&sku=1W219&bhfv=8&bhfx=9.0%20%20r28&bhbb=1&bhqs=1

name rappers plural, not link photos of 1 dude.

u guys hate chucks cuz everyone wears them but thats why i like them

"1 dude" = the game AKA chuck taylor

1 rapper /= "everyone"

also i dont really have an argument. just stating the opinion that i find chuck wearers low on character and imagination. this is subjective obviously. and if you paypal me a dollar i promise not to buy chucks.

also i quoted some pac lyrics note the plural "in LA we wear chucks"

"scared of me for what? and no i don't wear tux
and if i ever got a grammy man i'd bail in some chuck taylors..."

My mom got a pair of red Chuck's for Xmas from my sis a couple of years back. What this proves I don't know.

in defense of chucks, this video is pretty epic: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tW6kQrvLA6U&mode=related&search=

also i think tupac wore these:
http://www.hbdetrade.com/pic/2007625104851.jpg

tupac wears flipflops on the beach of the desert island where he and jim morrison and marilyn monroe live.

"fresh dressed like a million bucks
threw on my white sox and my all blue chucks"

My Adidas
walk through concert doors
and roam all over coliseum floors
I stepped on stage, at Live Aid
All the people gave an applause that paid
And out of speakers I did speak
I wore my sneakers but I'm not a sneak
My Adidas cuts the sand of a foreign land
with mic in hand I cold took command
my Adidas and me both askin P
we make a good team my Adidas and me
we get around together, rhyme forever
and we won't be mad when worn in bad weather

Chucks are good for walking around in lakes, and that's it.

yes, chaki!!!! tho my last pair of adidas (hemp campus) have been retired, shit fell apart pretty quickly.

yo fuck homies, i love penis and hate chuck taylors so if any of u wana hook up ill fuck yo mumma
-- Roydon Abbot speaks truth on Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 PM (1 year ago) on i hate people who wear chuck taylors Bookmark Link

better lyrics better shoes

"Nigga what's up with your 'Speak 'n spell shoes'? Fisher-Price -- my first Timberlands! Nigga, yo, that shits is old, you need to get some chuckas, fucka"

one of my new pairs of sneaks are some black adidas trainers but i haven't worn 'em out much yet because they have a louisville cardinal embroidered on the sides. best wait for basketball season.

i am wearing some le coqs out tonight. they make me feel cool.

"I combed my hair washed and brushed my teeth
got funky fresh dressed in my la coq sportif"
- Will Smith

great minds...ALIKE

gold new balances for me tonight.

uh (xpost)

Chuck Taylor All-Americans**

**Made in Myanmar

**duh

le coq sportif

official footware of the black crusaders 1994 - present

i like will smith. he is a national treasure. also you cant fuck with "summertime." also dj jazzy jeff invented the transformer scratch no deny.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/ff/250px-30_Rock_season_1_episode_2.png

will smiths endorsing good hygiene in that line is also something i can get behind.

no no i like will smith. he got imagination. s'why he got so many biters.

cool so you will send me $1?

also is there anything good on tv tonight besides anthony bourdain?

hbo/showtime free preview on dish network. i hope i can see the Barrera/Pacquiao fight even though i heard it kinda sucked

I was sorta rooting against Manny :(

Chaki, the $94 pair are a "limited edition" with extra eyelets, dood. That's still stupid money but they're not the basic Chucks, either.

i got a pair of "premiere" all-stars (like these but green). look good, better foot support.

$94 for extra eyelets?!

that's cheap, at $22.50 an eyelet

I can just imagine my dad saying, "Those eyelets better be made outta gold." (He said that about a $65 industrial garbage can once.)

My mom says that my cats are dipped in gold because their vet bill was five hundred dollars once.

Our parents equate seemingly arbitrary high costs with precious metals, haha.

Haha! My mom actually CALLS them "dipped in gold" instead of their names. She will walk in the door and indicate each of them with a waving arm, saying "Dipped in gold, dipped in gold".

chaki u just a str8 up hater

all rappers endorsing chucks recorded said endorsements at least a decade ago except for game who is a walking anachronism anyway

i have one friend who wears them and is male and all he does is bitch about how they're giving him blisters.

also re: wear them with inserts, you could say that about any shoe! "these hallowed out pieces of timber are perfectly fine if u wear them with inserts"

I wore mine with inserts and they still hurt my feet. There's hardly any space in them for inserts anyway.

You are all middle class whiners.

omg guys seriously whining abt chucks is like complaining about t-shirts or something

im sorry that we dont all wear velcro-strapped new balances

and deej this dude

i have one friend who wears them and is male and all he does is bitch about how they're giving him blisters.

is a bitch

he should try one of these:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6983548-0-display.jpg

(btw - what the hell are those things called? shoe size measurers? foot rulers?)

max repeatedly otm

http://www.vowf.info/ A MORE WORTHWHILE PLACE FOR YOUR DONATIONS THAN IMELDA "CHAKI" MARCOS

hahaha imelda chaki marcos

haha.

look all im saying is free your mind, people. im almost 60 years old i know this shit.

and deej this dude

i have one friend who wears them and is male and all he does is bitch about how they're giving him blisters.

is a bitch

-- max, Monday, October 8, 2007 9:20 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

otm but beside the pt

look i dont even know what im talking about i wear chucks all the time.

I miss my hemp Chucks. Newer canvas ones seem to fit like shit and are falling apart straight out of the box, stitching hanging loose, etc.

Or maybe the canvas ones were always terrible, but at $15.95/pair from Academy Sports it was acceptable. For $40+/pair, not so much.

i love both pairs of my adidas campus suede sneaks. they cost $60 each and i dont care.

you must be a middle class whiner!

haha the truth comes out!

about what

that you wear chux all the time

yah why would i care about shoes?

although you have proven your hypothesis correct, that people who wear them are uncreative :D

zing

So the solution is to go barefoot.

chucks are defly horribly made and uncomfortable and last about 5 minutes. still i will always have a sentimental soft spot in my heart for black high tops and of course girls who wear them.

Chucks are pretty cool. They hurt sometimes, but if you wear them on and off with normal shoes they are alright. I spent way too much money on these recently: http://www.keepcompany.com/images/products/large_images/Tob_BO.jpg They come soon in the mail. I hope they fit!

sheesh those are worse than A shoes

yeah, I'm bored with vans slip ons though, ergo, weird decisions happen.

I've owned a pair of Chucks continuously since 1987 when I mail ordered a pair from an ad in the back of Transworld Skateboarding. I'm wearing a pair right now that I've had for five years now. Maybe this is why they're still intact and were cheap when purchased.

ur feet must smell like a dead dog's ass

still i will always have a sentimental soft spot in my heart for black high tops and of course girls who wear them.

-- s1ocki, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

shit's ugly and played and the sooner all yall realize it the better off we all will be.

i have these shits

http://www.justfocus.org.nz/wp-content/nosweats200.jpg

for those of us who want the cache, the comfort, and an asshole superiority complex

me too. i like them they just hurt my feet a lot

i got them too, i like them bc they weigh like next to nothing. i destroy them pretty thoroughly but i always destroy shoes. i had the blackspot sneakers once and they were a lot tougher but it felt like wearing clown shoes.