Here are some shoes for all you old hippies out there

[ornotna]

http://wheezersociety.blogs.com/wheezer/fashion/

[Kali]

1. want!

[ornotna]

6. Aren't those cool

I'd like to see all four editions.

[Moondog]

2. Most excellent!

[ornotna]

7. Yes they are.

I like 'em

[Callalily]

3. Now don't for get about

Earth shoes. They are definately the "rage" again!

[ornotna]

9. I don't remember earth shoes looking like that

:rofl:

[Bertha Venation]

4. I thought you were going to show us Wallabees

[ornotna]

5. Ha! I already have a pair of those. n/t

[conscious evolution]

8. I must kill you now

I had not thought about those peice of crap shoes in decades.
I spent way too many hours scrubbibg the marks off floors that the soles of those shoes leave.What is it about them that they pick up and transfer every stain generating material known to man? And don't even get me started on the stuff unknown to man.UhhGGg!

[Dr Fate]

20. LOL! In the 80's those were called "Head Shoes." n/t

n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. Bad imitations -

The Chuck Taylor Converse High-Tops were the real thing - still are - and they predate hippies by a whole lot of years -

[ornotna]

11. Well, ok

If Converse were to make an R Crumb shoe I would check them out.

[Kali]

12. I have a couple pairs, but they sure don't have Mr. Natural on them!

[Moondog]

13. Yeah, my one pair is R Crumb-less too.

[fizzgig]

22. chucks are pretty much all i wear

i love them

[MineralMan]

23. I wear red Converse high-tops some of the time.

They keep discontinuing them, then restarting production. I finally bought six pairs and keep them stored for the future.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. I once dated a guy

who was in charge of getting Converse sneakers into sporting goods stores like Herman's, and places like that.

He brought me a pair - what he called "Dress Converse" - they were rainbow-striped highops, with shiny silver thread between each stripe. They were FABULOUS!!!!

Years later, I sold them to a Converse Hightop collector in Denmark for over $300!!!

[MineralMan]

25. Oh, my! I had never heard of those.

A little, well, je ne sais quois, for me, but wonderful. The red ones are funny. People my age and up to 30 years younger can't figure it out. Everyone under 30, though, says "Dude!" when they see me in them. Then they look a bit puzzled...

[Scurrilous]

14. Cheech Wizard Pumas:

Nice. :thumbsup:

[ornotna]

15. Yes, those are nice

It's a shame they're not available anymore.

[DBoon]

16. R. Crumb better be getting royalties for these

He has gotten screwed many times in this regards

[Brother Buzz]

17. Crumb is hardly getting screwed in France these days.

In the mid-1990s Crumb traded six of his sketchbooks for a house in the small town of Sauve, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in the South of France where he moved with his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (also a well-known "underground" cartoonist) and their daughter, Sophie (herself a comic artist).

He, like Jerry Lewis, is very popular in France and his publications are selling well.

[Moondog]

18. I'm glad to hear that. n/t

[DBoon]

19. I heard he got nothing for those ubiquitous "keep on truckin" logos

the ones that popped up everywhere in the 1970s.

I believe (though I may be wrong here) that he also made very little out of his other popularizations like the "Fritz the Cat" movie

I'm glad to hear the French are giving him his due, and not ripping him off like Americans seemed to

If anyone deserves to retire in the south of France, it's R Crumb

[Brother Buzz]

21. He also gave them away

A business in his old hometown, Winters, California, proudly uses it with his permission.

Fritz the Cat was a piece of shit movie. His estranged wife having power-of-attorney sold the rights against his wishes. He was paid chump change and later killed off Fritz in protest.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. anybody remember suede chukka boots?