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I thought the same but turns out running shoes are a big part of their heritage.
Yeah, but they've not taking much inspiration from it for their current skating line.
Is “big part” perhaps an overstatement? Running shoes are a big part of Nike bc of their founders, Waffle Iron cleats, Steve Prefontaine, etc. with Converse it just seems like a thing they had to diversify to include in the 80s, but I’d be suprised to hear there’s an iconic model of Converses that more than any die hard know.
Not trying to be contentious here, generally would be curious to know more. Googling it returned just a bunch of shoes that seemed like generic 80s runners that only look familiar in there genericness