What really pisses me off is tariff engineering. I love minimal, flat, sneakers. I used to routinely buy Converse Chuck Taylors. Canvas, rubber, and eyelets at

What really pisses me off is tariff engineering. I love minimal, flat, sneakers. I used to routinely buy Converse Chuck Taylors. Canvas, rubber, and eyelets at a reasonable price. After they shipped production overseas, they started embedding soft, slippery felt in the soles, while the price krept up like everything else. Yeah, great, now they can dodge paying a tariff by claiming it's actually a "slipper", but the shoes are garbage now. Thankfully Vans hasn't done this yet.