I must be regressing back to my messy state of youth seeing as I have to painfully to tell you that the shoes that I now wear the most are.... my light grey Converse high tops.  I only say the 'most' only because I'm doing a lot of trekking around these days and they come with me in a canvas tote whenever I have to slip off the heels to do some serious pounding.  So when I came across these Adidas Consortium Superskates, it did make me think about investing in a pair of shoes that I'd actually get a lot of practical wear out of.  Yes, it is unfortunate that it isn't just about the fantastical two wear shoe-buys with me... but look at the wonderful flaps of colours...

These feature a very unique and enticing palette of colours in the layered mid-section of the shoe that immediately bring to mind a similar colour contrast seen in Louise Markey's Central St Martins MA collection that I simply can't erase from my mind.  All the more reason to support her as she is in the final four of this year's Fashion Fringe competition.  I don't usually play favourites before these things but I am definitely looking forward to seeing what Markey produces for the show in September the most. 

There's also reminders of that sane ice cream rainbow of colours that I encountered when I went to Broadstairs' Morelli's ice cream parlour which is quite simply a valuable bit of kitsch that should be preserved in all its pastel glory....

Sadly, as with most of these street-y/sneaker-related things, I'm just always too late in the game with the likes of Hypebeast and Sneakernews being quick off the mark to write about them, they have sold out on the Japanese (of course...) onliine stockist of Hangtime.  Ah well, if I'm going to get back into the sneaker swing of things, I'll have to be more dilligent about it.... or I could just save the pennies and continue my only-Converse trainer rule...