48 - too old for Converse?

[pierreretti]

No one is too old for Converse! Enjoy!

 

[sash1642]

Just like skinny jeans and baseball caps with superhero logos on them, converse dont look good on older men or most people for that matter. They look ridiculous, although I grant the older man in the thread gallery pic makes them work. But only because he's got a nautical look going on and he's using the rubber sole and canvas of the converse to reference a yacht shoe (or Thurston Howell III from Gilligans island).

 

[Beowulf Stumbled]

A few older men can pull off the Chuck Taylor thing, but I think most men over 50 end up looking silly when they try to pull off any kind of boyish look. Personally, as I got older, had kids, had some successes and failures, and began to show the nicks and bruises one acquires by middle age, I gradually wore fewer youthful pieces. It seems to me that when I was a kid all the grownups dressed like, well, grown ups. Now I see professional men my age (56) at the grocery store on a weekend wearing board shorts, flip flops, a t-shirt, and baseball cap. Unshaved and un-showered. And I think to myself -- "grow up, man." To each his own, of course, but I veer hard towards gravitas and away from frivolity. Hence, I have one pair of sneakers -- the same style of plain white K-Swiss I've been wearing since 1980-- and I wear them rarely, say on a walk or on vacation.