Now that’s more like it. Those are shoes, mom! They’re endorsed by kids with a serrated edge cap festooned with pop-bottle tops; that’s got to mean they’re keen. Just don't get me the girl ones with the clown baked right in. He'll steal my sole!

Never heard of Grips; before my time. We were the Keds generation. Keds were great because they had a blue rubber thing on the heel that said KEDS and you could peel it off eventually and it was like peeling off a good scab but your mom got mad if you wrecked them too early so you had to wait until it started to peel off on its own.