Converse shoes

Converse shoes

Converse started with a basketball-inspired Bang returned in 1907. Modified basketball shoes and quickly achieved icon status.

Styles of Converse Shoes:

Chuck Taylor aka Chuck: Classics, Specialty, Varvatos, and Web Exclusives. These are the shoes that come to mind when you hear the name "Converse". Chucks come in all colors. Some are high tops made tops turned down to reveal a complementary color. Some have cartoon character collages. You can even customize your own. Make them unique by lacing them up in a nontraditional way. Converse All-Stars also appear in high top or low top styles with obvious white stitching put them out from the crowd.

Basketball: Performance, Classics, and Web Exclusives. Sports, which started shoes. Or maybe the shoes that started the sport, depending on how you want to look at it. These look more like a modern sports than traditional Chucks. They are leather, offers ankle support and are very simple style. Often they have a single star on the side.

Lifestyle: Re-issue sports lifestyle, One Star, Varvatos, and Web Exclusives. These look like a cross between the ever popular Chucks and basketball shoes, Converse has to offer. Still easy and simple, lifestyle shoes often sporting the same star as a basketball shoe. Another brand, but they retain? Two, actually: a lot of rubber and big, fat laces.

What's Special About Converse:

Converse shoes are comfortable. They are also all-American, easily and come in trendy colors like pink and blue cornflower. Another special quality is their ability to transcend cultures, they appeal to punks, rebels, athletes and children.

Chucks have stuck to their roots among the throngs of air soles, gel-filled, high and heavy athletic shoes. And while other prices have risen, Converse is still a relatively inexpensive brand. They used to sell for about $ 10 per couple, but now they're only up to about $ 35.

A couple more things that make Converse shoes - especially All-Stars - better than the rest:

Toe guard - you know the big piece of rubber at the end of the shoe, just above your toe. It looks trendy and at the same time it protects your feet!

They are fun and easy to string. You can do it in a variety of ways, with all the colors of fat laces.

Although they feel pretty comfortable and has a relatively simple design, these shoes are not made for athletic wear. Shock-absorption and / or support are not included in shoe soles. Even the hi-tops do not help much with ankle support. If you want more information on the support and / or damping, can you see your doctor pediatrist or pedorthist.

How to choose them, wear them and care for them:

Buying Converse shoes is quite simple. Make sure that the one is like the others, from the way the toe guard is located on shoes for the distance between the eyelets. Check if your tongue sticks out more than one inch of you is laced up laces on each shoe. Principle, all of a Converse shoe be balanced down to the heel patches directly in the back middle of the shoe, and its partner should be a mirror image.

Here are some tips to wear your converse shoes:

Wear quality socks that allow your feet to breathe.

Keep your laces untwisted hole in space, so they last longer and looks fresher.

Make your own Converse select laces in a different color or size.

Center tongue of the shoe, so they become more comfortable on your feet.

Be sure to confirm that wearing Converse will not create or enlarge any foot problems. Bunyons, pronation and supination will all lead to more serious problems, and later it will be harder to find shoes that fit and feel comfortable.

When your care Converse shoes just say no to bleach! Use soap and water to clean the shoes without damage. You can put your Converse shoes in the washing machine, but beware of faded color. Do not put them in the dryer, however. Leave them out to air-dry.