Sort of cheating...
..as I had PFs as a small tyke...by the time I was being a pain about what shoes >I< wanted we were firmly planted in converse country.
We called them All-Stars. I've come to learn that in Philly they called them "Chucks" because they were officially "Chuck Taylor All Stars".
High top canvas. The coolest.
HOWEVER, while knowing that I had PFs, I don't remember them from my childhood...I was told later in life that I wore them. I know PFs from later life and family members working for BF Goodrich, who invented and sold the PF Flyers.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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