I looked for weeks for a new pair of comfortable kicks, and finally settled back on the black on black old school vans. I seem to through the years cycle through converse and vans. I’m not entirely sure if the vans are made in sweatshops or not, but I’ve never been a big fan of nike, and their ownership of converse swayed me to vans again. (Yes, the pair of converse are that old.) Well…ok, not that noble, it also helps that these vans (which have more cushion than the more popular ones) don’t make you feel like you’ve been literally hitting the pavement as much as when wearing the chucks. The second runners up were a pair of pumas, which looked really great but really just weren’t all that special, and a pair of tsubos that were pretty comfortable but weren’t quite as all-purpose (great for walking but try to slide those weird nubbly soles into bike pedal cages…).
