School shoes

maybe someone with a plimsoll fetish..

If a youngster then , if older ?

Converses, which are dead cool fashion accessories, are essentially expensive plimsolls.

Do any gransnetters wear converses?

Why are they called converses, btw? Odd name for shoes.

Just a brand name, bags - who can tell why?

Vans are the same sort of thing. Ridiculous prices!

In the primary schools around here, kids have to change into their plimsolls for indoor wear. I asked why once. The answer was something about carpets .

I haven't got any but would like some ..GD has trainer habit and I fund that ....lucky if I can afford plimsolls for me these days

I borrowed DD' Converses....I still have the scars from blisters so definitely not for me!

Vans are really good. Comfortable, nice looking, good quality. GS1 looks great in his. Like everything else, you get what you pay for.

I wouldn't pay £60 plus for a pair of trainers/plimsolls however good they look!

He'll probably have grown out of them by next week...

That's why I tried out DD's, I found them initially comfortable but then ouch...

He got them in a sale, and used his Christmas money to buy them. I think they will last the summer.

#headscrewedon

I don't think they are made to accommodate old bones loopy. . I need a bit of support and footbed padding.

I wholeheartedly agree jingl, serves me right for a pitiful attempt to be 'trendy'
Just ended up 'hobbling around like an old bag lady' said DS

I bought some Converses on eBay. They were a lot trendier than I'd imagined. "When are you going to be wearing those?" said DD1. "When you're chilling with your homies?". Off to the charity shop they went.

I got Converse lookalikes from Next for GS1 and he was perfectly happy that he wasn't wearing a 'label'. He is a savvy consumer, that boy!