Velcro-low-top-black-converse-all-stars...These are the shoes of my 8 year old Luke. Well worn, he has gotten a lot of mileage out of these bad boys. These kicks have climbed trees, skated up and down streets, and chased his little sister.
Sadly these shoes are worn beyond wear and no longer can keep up with Luke's action-packed-hyper-fast life style. We had to say "good-bye" to the Chucks and opt for something sleeker, faster, newer.
Luke's choice:
Old-school-low-top-slip-on-vans-with-flames (insert Scorpions 
metal tune "Rock You Like a Hurricane").
metal tune "Rock You Like a Hurricane").Do you have a favorite pair of shoes currently or from your childhood?
Anyone still own a pair of L.A. Gear or British Knights?
2 comments:
I have a footwear memory that your kids (or my kids, for that matter) can not identify with. I had to wear boots over my shoes in the winter. They were generally buckle boots or if you were "modern", maybe you had a zippered boot. The point was to keep you from getting snow in your shoes when you walked to school (Walk to school? Not sure if anyone does that any more judging from all the cars I pass each morning.)
The best day of each spring was the one when your Mom told you that it was O.K. to go to school without your boots on. Granted, this was generally a long time coming as you had to get rid of the snow and the slush and the mud before the "no boots" edict was issued but.... that was the day you felt like a gazelle. You could run and jump like crazy because you had shed what seemed like 10 pounds from each foot; 10 pounds you had dragged along day after day for months. That's my footwear memory. And my Chuck's - when I finally got a pair from my Uncle's shoe store in Grand Haven - were the real ones, made in the USA! Now I'm really showing my age - shoes? Made in America??
How about Adidas Gazels...blue. I also loved my Patrick socker shoes...they fit so nice and made me play like a star
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