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  • Am I too old for converse?
  • flossie
    Free Member

    Geltlemen, please can you help?

    I’m 47 years young and quite fancy a pair of converse. (Just black ones, nothing colourful) But my fifteen year old daughter has forbidden me making the purchase on the grounds of my age. I have mates my age who wear them but they are in bands which seems to make it ok in her eyes.
    Should I…
    1. Ignore her and buy a pair and be in danger of looking a t**t.
    2. Take her advice.
    3. Learn to play the gutar and join a band

    Thanks

    Floss

    tootallpaul
    Full Member

    Flossie,

    Buy them.

    I am also 47 years of age and currently wearing converse.

    I have 5 pairs. One black, one red, one grey, one maroon, and a pair of black lo tops.

    🙂

    Bregante
    Full Member

    45 here and have a few pairs of converse.

    Only the shoes though, not the hi tops
    And when I’m as old as you I definitely won’t wear them! 😉

    Drac
    Full Member

    41 and have a pair don’t wear them as they’re uncomfortable as hell.

    Could be worse you could be wanting a pair of Flossies.

    brooess
    Free Member

    41-and-a-quarter and I still have Converse. We all dress like teenagers these days you know 🙂

    Although I was once advised if you remember clothes from the first time around you shouldn’t be wearing them second time round…

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Yup.

    ….all those saying you’re ok are delusional and in denial 8)

    PJM1974
    Free Member

    40 here and proudly wearing Converse.

    timc
    Free Member

    Do it properly & get some air max

    Drac
    Full Member

    Do it properly & get some air max

    Wearing mine as I type, 😀

    PJM1974
    Free Member

    Haha! Rocking Air Max like it’s 1990…

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Surely “to embarrass your kids” is a compelling reason to get them?

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Buy some.
    🙂

    Or if you’ve got wider feet and/or aren’t flat footed, get some Vans.
    Cheaper and waaaaay better looking, imo.

    Regards,
    Pete
    Aged 45 and a quarter.

    beefheart
    Free Member

    Avoid.
    Get some vans brogues instead.

    wolfenstein
    Free Member

    I have the same dillema but Vans.. My daughter wont give me the go signal 🙁

    flossie
    Free Member

    Not sure about the vans I was hoping to go more for ‘Rockstar’ than ‘Skater Boy’.

    Floss

    PS. The daughter is following this thread and finding it hilarious!

    Jamie
    Free Member

    20-30 = Converse
    30-40 = Merrells/Vans
    40-50 =

    Cougar
    Full Member

    PS. The daughter is following this thread and finding it hilarious!

    Flossette,

    Think yourself lucky he’s not looking for a pair of comedy socks and some nice sandals. Or Vibram FiveFingers.

    Daffy
    Full Member

    If you have to ask…

    Drac
    Full Member

    I have the same dillema but Vans.. My daughter wont give me the go signal

    WTF?

    Squidlord
    Free Member

    With teenage daughter’s approval, I bought a pair of the totally black ones (the ones with the black rubber logo & toe-caps). I’d always wanted a pair of those.

    They’re not comfy, and I look ridiculous in them. Size 9 1/2. Worn maybe 4 times. £10 each, or £17.50 for both. Make me an offer.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    You’re selling your shoes individually?

    Squidlord
    Free Member

    Tom_W1987
    Free Member

    You’re selling your shoes individually?

    :mrgreen:

    sbob
    Free Member

    Plimsoles were shit when I was doing PE in vest and pants.
    A five point star doesn’t change matters.
    You may as well man-up, go the whole hog and get some silver shadows.

    😛

    TiRed
    Full Member

    of course you are not. The most important question is do you have narrow enough feet for Converse. I’m 47 and get my kids cast offs because their feet are now wider than my D-width stick feet.

    Vans are where it’s at, apparently.

    batfink
    Free Member

    I am surprised nobody has suggested the “c” word yet. Threatening to wear “those that shall not be mentioned” is probably the easiest way to get your daughter to sign-off on the Cons/vans…. or (frankly) anything else.

    caffeineoldbean
    Free Member

    I have been wearing cons and vans all my life,48. Due to age I just switched shoes to some 5 10 dirt bags. Should arrive by the weekend what what.

    robdob
    Free Member

    The day I start caring about what other people’s opinions are about what I wear is the day I am old. 38 and I have owned one pair of “proper” shoes in the last 10 years. 😀

    wilburt
    Free Member

    I wore converse as a kid, I now wear the £10/20 pound knock of versions.

    howsyourdad1
    Free Member

    David Cameron wears Converse so for that reason alone no one should wear them

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    I used to have a pair but lost them somewhere. Must go on a hunt, I think they’re in the tardis cupboard under the stairs.

    The converse weren’t an issue, it was when I put a pair of the wife’s ‘jeggings’ on as well to look like a hipster that the kids forbade me leaving the house. I was never going to…… but then again we will never use nuclear weapons either. Simply knowing that they exist (the converse / jeggings / band T-shirt outfit) makes them fear what I could do to them if I had to, and that’s enough.

    Thankfully, no pics exist, the wife was crying with laughter and couldn’t find a camera in time.

    (Nearly 46 BTW)

    cfinnimore
    Free Member

    But then and prove to her, when it comes to personal style, some one else’s opinion means nothing at all.

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    I think you can get more comfortable, better stuff for the same money, but depends if you want to be one of the kidz or not

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    The answer is ‘yes’ if you feel the need to ask. You shall wear your teenage fashion fetish with the mien of the desperate and insecure. You shall openly invite silent yet crushing opprobium from strangers and family alike. Those furtive glances at your feet-folly are not the admiring kind. They are the same kind that peek at a leather blouson, or a white sock and loafer. Try brogues and cargo shorts?

    B.A.Nana
    Free Member

    say you’re really keen for the bright yellow rubber ones, she’ll probably compromise with the trad plain white and consider it a minor victory.

    seadog101
    Full Member

    I’m allowed Vans, but Converse, no.

    sputnik
    Free Member

    Saw a dad wearing a pair of Converse when he was dropping his child off at pre school.
    Pink FFS! Pink
    What was he thinking?

    Ps Please tell me it wasn’t one of you

    franki
    Free Member

    You’re never too old to wear Converse! 🙄
    Just bought myself some new orange ones this summer.
    (I’m 43 – not that that makes any difference.)
    My 16 year old way-stylish daughter is more than happy to be seen out with me in them! 8)

    totalshell
    Full Member

    im a 51yr pie eater and my 27yr old niece says im cool for wearing mine.. ( three pairs blue red black) the kids all have them only mrs tts goes without.

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