While poking around the Complex.com site, I spotted a blog item about a new model of Chuck Taylor's Converse All Stars. It reminded me of the '60s, when I'd walk two miles to an Army and Navy store on
Fordham Road in the Bronx to snare a pair of Cons for $14 -- two dollars cheaper than the going rate (trudging in the driving snow, uphill both ways, with nary an iPod or cell phone to accompany me).
The 1HUND(RED) Tokyo Police Club sneakers cost $89.99, with 10% of the wholesale proceeds going to The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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