Maybe I'm out of line or something but I don't get the last resort knobriding I've been seeing. They're essentially the exact same as converse/vans/Nike blazer shoe.
Having had a pair of polar jack purcells a while ago and having seen the polar Nike blazers, I'm not really shocked that they copied other designs. Must be a lucrative venture for them, but still, I'm not going to plop a hundred for bootleg looking versions of the exact same shoe I can get at my local on sale for $50.