Vert Texas Style.
I never had a pair of Simples. I don't know if I ever liked their designs and I'm not sure how I feel about them today. I'm not into toecaps in general because I think they look a bit odd. The shoes did look neat on the feet of Mark Gonzales and Julien Stranger so they had that going for them. They also made some cool looking ads.
The photo is by Chris Ortiz.
Thrasher - September 1994 Volume 14 Number 9
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I bought Simples—the first ones, with the toecap—because Carl Shipman wore them in the Stereo video. They were awful. The soles were way too thin and grippy, and the uppers were floppy. Fuck those shoes.
I had a pair. Not the ones with the toecaps that were more common. They were some funky green and brown shoes (I don't even know what they were called). I traded a pair of Puma Clydes for them. Eh, they were okay.
Carl Shipman did have a sick video part in A Visual Sound.
In college I bought my buddy a Simple logo shirt for Christmas as he had the shoes and put "Kevin is ______ minded" on the card. When he opened it and said "I don't get it..." I felt bad, but also laughed pretty damn hard. Its weird what sticks in your head over 20 years later.
I had the simple bam bams i got on sale for 29 bucks at my skateshop. Plasticy but did the job
I have a pair of Simple shoes now. They are just black with a white sole, no toe cap. They were purchased at a department store called Belk's. I remember that their shoe with the toe cap got pretty popular and thought that it would probably sell well these days because the upper was suede as opposed to Universe's canvas.
Also, Simple had Gershon and Jamie Thomas on their team at one point.
Should have read Converse. Darn auto-correct got me.
So that's what Belk's is? They were the title sponsor for a bowl game Arkansas played in a few years ago and I'd never heard of the company.
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