My sister has a collection of about 8 pairs of hightop Converse gym boots and 2 pairs of the sneaker style. My son has a navy pair, which my husband hates because he has so much trouble getting them on him. At the moment I have a black pair - very conservative.
I had my first pair of Converse gym boots when I was 12. They were hot pink. Eventually I customised them by painting purple flames flaring up from the heel (a la hotrod style). It seemed like a good idea at the time... it was the 80's. Now you don't have to paint your Converse to customise them - Converse will make ones specially for you. Converse's website has a feature that allows you to choose every little bit of your shoe, right down to the stitching colour. You can choose from their regular hightops, lowtops, canvas, leather, whatever. Here is what I started off with:
Then you step by step choose a colour for each part of the shoe. You can even personalise them by getting a word or name printed on the heel or on the side at the back. My only wish is that they had more patterns and graphical prints. Here's my masterpiece:
There's nothing conservative about those babies!
The price is pretty much the same as an off-the-shelf pair. However, if you're outside the US you'll have to get them forwarded to you because, like most US companies, Converse only ship to within America.
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