I’m a girl who knows shoes. And so when I read that you can design your own Converse All Stars, I was intrigued.
This summer, I spent a couple of weeks looking for cool All Star high tops with my friend Anna, here visiting from Sweden. Everything is more expensive where she lives, and Converse high tops are still very in style. Turns out almost no one here carries interesting high tops anymore. We found black and white and one pair of blue in size 14 mens.
I have vivid memories of my older cousin, anti-social in his teens (or perhaps just unimpressed with his boring younger cousin?), playing a lot of video games and wearing a wide variety of loud, neon All Star high tops. Who knew I’d be wishing for those shoes so many years later?
Here’s my first stab at designing my own:
I would totally rock these.
Have you ever designed your own shoes on one of the many sites online? What do your Converse dream shoes look like?
(images via converse.com)
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
How fun! I haven’t tried designing my own yet, but I did buy a pair of shoes that someone else designed on Zazzle — and I love them! I think it’s so cool that the shoe companies are doing this now. Are you going to buy them?
I’m debating…they’re a little pricey, but also pretty damn cute….
Honestly, the likelihood is fairly high. 🙂
Hi Emily,
Love the idea of these ‘design your own’! I’ll have to check this out 🙂
Also, finished reading ‘Little Bee’ over the summer. Great character development, don’t you think?
XO Laura (from BYW)
I really, really enjoyed Little Bee. Actually thinking about writing about it one of these days, I enjoyed it so much. It was so powerful in so many different ways.
I designed my own Converse Jack Purcells a few years ago… My only caution is that the colors that show up on your computer screen may not be accurate representations of the colors of the items AND YOU CAN’T RETURN THEM. I thought I was getting some sage-ish green shoes and ended up with NEON! GREEN! So, picking a color like purple that doesn’t have any horrible shades is a great idea. 🙂