I remember my first pair of WHITE high tops as a kid. My mom had always made me get black because they didn't show dirt so quickly. (Though they did fade nicely.) White was a luxury indeed. What the cool guys wore....2 kinds of kid then, those who kept their whites free of grass stains and those who didn't.
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..... "I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time." Mark Twain, Speeches
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