Converse Chuck 70 High 'Photon Dust'
Colorway: Photon Dust/Rush Blue · Style code: 166854C · Price: $112 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Converse Chuck 70 High 'Cobalt' (172960C) · Converse Chuck 70 High 'Ivory' (A00734C) · Converse Chuck 70 High 'Black' (170369C) · Converse Chuck 70 High 'Snakeskin' (170103C) · Converse Chuck 70 High 'Pride' (170821C)
Two small parts tell you which Chuck you are holding. The heel license plate on a Chuck 70 is black, where the standard All Star's is white, and the circular ankle patch is stitched into the canvas rather than printed on top of it. Both are revivals rather than inventions, carried over from how the shoe was built in the 1960s and 1970s and reinstated when the 70 line arrived in 2013.
Photon dust is a pale, slightly cool grey, which makes that trim legible in a way a dark make-up does not. Rush blue handles the accents. At 90 dollars it sat a few dollars above the plainest highs in the range. Under the upper sit the rest of the reissue details: canvas heavier than a regular All Star's, a taller glossy midsole with the foxing running high, a one-piece rubber outsole and a thick OrthoLite footbed.