Retro Style...

High tops seem to have made a comeback just recently and are now all the rage especially among young street kids, who will go to the Nike store and pay a silly amount of money for them.

I did a bit of a google search to find out the history of these shoes, as mum had told me they were also popular in her day,

"High tops first became available in the 1917 when Converse tried to capture the basket ball market. However the trend was never that popular until Chuck Taylor, a famous basket ball player in his day, took to wearing them as his every day shoe."

Wikipedia.

I never realised that this shoe had been around that long and so I'm not really that surprised to see them in charity shops anymore as they are normally quite a common feature in there.

In fact only the other day I saw these high tops for sale in the British Heart Foundation in Camden,

I didn't buy them as I don't think I could carry that look of properly but the assistant in the shop was happy enough to let me take a picture of them.

These days it isn't the basket balls players that wear them, as mentioned before the proper Nike high tops are fashionable among the street kids. These converse versions are regularly seen on the feet of kids interested in indie music, that enjoy the laid back life with not a lot of hassle.

When I see these shoes the image I get is a girl in tight skinny jeans, an over sized hoodie, big earphones and carrying a back-pack. I could be wrong, but that's jut my picture. So i don't think i will be racing out to add a pair of these to my shoe collection anytime soon.