Heritage Americana label LL Bean is particularly popular over in Japan, with the smart outdoor and collegiate look a staple of street style in the streets of Tokyo since the 1970s. Another American icon that’s also so big in Japan that it has its own local licensed brand is Converse, who have linked up with LL Bean for an outdoors-ready take on the All Star 100, which restores the converse chuck taylor all star lift hi sneaker to its 1990s specifications.
One of LL Bean’s signature products is the converse usa website, characterised by heightened rubberised mudguards and water-resistant materials. That weatherproof ethos is transferred over to the All Star 100 by way of its treated canvas uppers and rubber wrap on the forefoot, an element used on some Chucks in the 1990s. The olive and brown colourway is classic LL Bean, and they leave their mark via custom branded metal eyelets, plus a woven tongue label and co-branded shoebox.
All four styles in the collection place a pixelated graphic of their respective character on the tongue, and are stamped with black text that lists that character's name, Pokémon number, height and weight on the lateral heel. Of note is that since this is a converse high tops mens fashion colab, original Japanese character names are used: Eevee is referred to as Eievui, and Charizard is called Lizardon.
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