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![]() ![]() What is it about this sneaker that makes it so culturally pervasive? With help from Converse-wearers, we’ll find the answers. Peterson explores trends in everything from lace styles to color schemes and highlights Converse’s feature that allows you to design your own.” He also takes a look at the social importance of Chucks: appearing in sports, rock and roll, movies, and art, they are known as one of the most iconic examples of twentieth-century footwear design. Though they have a simple, classic style, the many shoes photographed here make clear that true believers always find ways to individualize their favorite footwear, even though black was the only color available for almost fifty years. ![]() The shoe quickly became a phenomenon that has lasted for nearly a century with a fanbase that has varied greatly. In this book, shoe enthusiast Hal Peterson takes an in-depth look at the history, significance, and magic of Chucks.” Originally a rubber shoe company, Converse rolled out the canvas All Star in 1917, nicknamed Chucks” for the basketball hall-of-famer, Charles Chuck” Taylor, who was a lifelong promoter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the murders still show characteristic Lofts elements. Lofts chose to release her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis because she did not want the readers of her historic fiction to pick up a murder-mystery novel and expect classic Lofts historical fiction. ![]() She stood as a Town Councillor for Bury St Edmunds from 1957 to 1962, where she died in 1983. Lofts wed her second husband, Robert Jorisch, a technical consultant to the British Sugar Corporation at the town's sugar beet factory, in 1949. She married Geoffrey Lofts in 1931 with whom she had one son, Clive. In 1925 she attained a teaching diploma from Norwich Training College. Norah Ethel Robinson was born in Shipdham, Norfolk to Isaac Robinson and Ethel Garner, and grew up in Bury St Edmunds where she was educated at Guildhall Feoffment Girls School and the County Grammar School for Girls in the town. Northgate House, Bury St Edmunds, home to Lofts from 1955 until her death in 1983 ![]() |