15th July 2008 :: Converse or Lakhani

In school we used to wear white canvas shoes on Saturdays. Only one style of canvas shoes was available at that time and no one ever wore those except to school on Saturdays. Years later companies like Converse and Levi's made the canvas shoes fashionable. They came out with shoes that looked good but were priced quite high. When I found heavily discounted shoes by Converse, I decided to buy a pair. Later I was looking at the box and realised that Converse has outsourced the production to Lakhani-a company famous for making Hawaiian slippers and those ugly canvas shoes we used to wear as kids. Made me wonder if anyone at all would buy them if they had the logo of Lakhani instead of Converse. Worse still, would I have bought them even at the discounted price I paid if they were Lakhani?