The Pro Leather ‘76 OX “Vintage” in white/green, white/red, white/black are the pharmaceuticals Dr. Erving prescribed for my non-existent hops and marginal speed when I visited his clinic earlier today. All right, all right—only time in the gym will cure those ailments, but I digress. The premium leather uppers and weathered midsole on this batch of Pro Leathers is already makin’ me feel better, anyways!

The Converse Pro Leather ‘76 OX is available now in Japan and should be hitting Cons’ online depot soon.

Visuals: VA

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(Images provided by Terri Jarosinski a.k.a. Momdukes a.k.a. Ter-Rye a.k.a. Three Times If You Let Me!)

A couple of months ago, Converse invited me and several other shoe-related cats to experiment with and examine their Converse ONE initiative, an “ID” service that allows the consumer to invent their own color combinations and graft logos or personal memorandums onto their kicks. I decided to rework a pair of Converse Pro Leather ’76 Mids, the reissued version of the model Dr. J wore when he was running clinics in the 1970’s. Read More »