Plimsolls for Prim Soles: A History of Canvas Shoes – Habilitate

Image credit: Mpumelelo Macu on Unsplash Sneakers today are among the most colourful, elaborate, and extravagant things people put on their bodies. If contemporary fashion were fauna, trainers have evolved to be the eye-catching birds of paradise. This highly specialised evolution is all the more remarkable when you consider just how sedate their origins are. […]