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    Custom Chuck Taylors Matched to Tartan?

    I am a big fan of the classic Chuck Taylor All Stars, I wear a black on black pair almost daily and use them over my kilt hose at concerts and more casual events. They just opened up an outlet near my place, and they offer a custom service where you can go online and design the shoe from scratch with every color selection. So, I'm attempting to match the colors of my Farquharson tartan, from USA Kilts, to accent the kilt in a postmodern way for less uptight events. I may need more input, may take me a few weeks to nail down the right way to pull this off.




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    Classic

    Hard to go wrong with a nice pair of Chuck Taylor's!

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    I hope you are not serious, but if you are I would suggest wearing them on a very dark night or in a very, very casual situation.
    cheers...
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    well, that comes from poor judgement."
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    I think those Chucks match the tartan you displayed quite nicely. I say do it.

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    Call me old... (which I am) but having worn the high-topped version (back then they were just called Converse All Stars and nobody knew who Chuck Taylor was) all through high school and college while playing basketball I fail to see the romance of wearing those miserable things. Maybe they have been improved, but ours had no cushion, no arch support and really no ankle support either. As for kilt wearing, just because something is available in a tartan, doesn't necessarily mean that it should be.........

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    My first purchase (first job in 1970) I bought a pair of these, Converse All-Stars in "Carolina Blue". Don't think I'd wear them with a kilt, but sure love those shoes.

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    Comfy

    Chuck Taylor's are the best. Looks great.

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    I think Dr. Who wears those. Though I've never seen him/them in a kilt.

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    The wearing of plimsoles in the UK was confined to school and the military Physical education classes. Outside of that few would be seen dead wearing them.

    Now they are now they seem to be "fashionable" and there is a low twenties man a few feet away wearing some. The difference being they are no longer white and cheap, but coloured and stupidly expensive.
    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"
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    Well you learn something every day. Never heard of Chuck Taylors. I'd heard the term "plimsole" but didn't know the history behind it.

    Wiki says

    A plimsoll shoe, plimsoll or plimsole (British English; see other names below) is a type of athletic shoe with a canvas upper and rubber sole developed as beachwear in the 1830s by the Liverpool Rubber Company.

    The shoe was originally, and often still is in parts of the United Kingdom, called a "sand shoe" and acquired the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s. This name derived, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull...

    In the UK plimsolls are commonly worn for schools' indoor physical education lessons.


    Back when I was a teenager Converse High-Tops were required in gym class. I've not worn them since. I only saw them in black and white as best I can recall. (I never saw any Carolina Blue ones in the 70s, maybe it's a regional thing?)



    Very popular here in Southern California is a similar sort of shoe made by the company Vans.



    Originally you couldn't walk into a shop and buy a pair of Vans. The shop had samples of the various styles, and a book of fabric swatches, and you chose what fabric was to be used on what panels. Each pair of Vans, then, was unique, or if there were more than one pair of a particular fabric combination and size it would be mere coincidence. They were made in the back room of the original shop.

    They got so popular the company began mass-producing them and the unique custom/bespoke nature went by the wayside.

    Here's an original 1980s pair of Vans

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