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the apple pie of sneakers
10 Feb 2008 08:09 pmOne of my favourite icon journals, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fooish_icons, made a post of icons entirely of Converse sneakers today. The artist wrote a sweet little blurb about her attachment to them and said she thought no other shoe was so quintessentially American.
I love Converse, and they are pretty quintessentially American, but I immediately thought, what about Keds? Keds share much of the same space in American culture - overlapping, if you will, in the ragged canvas / beach / summer sun /apple pie / childhood way, but departing in that their history is tennis and the history of Converse is basketball. This gives them preppier overtones, and I think more feminine ones too; but on the other hand, Converse weren't even invented until the 60s and Keds date back nearly to the turn of the century. There are a lot more pictures of Converse on Flickr, but there are still over 2,000 tagged with Keds. Maybe this is a decade thing? Converse have been more dominant in the last five or ten years; Keds were everywhere in the 80s and early nineties (even more omnipresent in my childhood than Converse are now); Converse ruled the 60s and thereabouts; Keds the 40s and 50s?
What do you say? (Only vote if you're American, please.)
[Poll #1136236]
fooish_icons, made a post of icons entirely of Converse sneakers today. The artist wrote a sweet little blurb about her attachment to them and said she thought no other shoe was so quintessentially American.I love Converse, and they are pretty quintessentially American, but I immediately thought, what about Keds? Keds share much of the same space in American culture - overlapping, if you will, in the ragged canvas / beach / summer sun /apple pie / childhood way, but departing in that their history is tennis and the history of Converse is basketball. This gives them preppier overtones, and I think more feminine ones too; but on the other hand, Converse weren't even invented until the 60s and Keds date back nearly to the turn of the century. There are a lot more pictures of Converse on Flickr, but there are still over 2,000 tagged with Keds. Maybe this is a decade thing? Converse have been more dominant in the last five or ten years; Keds were everywhere in the 80s and early nineties (even more omnipresent in my childhood than Converse are now); Converse ruled the 60s and thereabouts; Keds the 40s and 50s?
What do you say? (Only vote if you're American, please.)
[Poll #1136236]
