Hoop Stars: Converse Fastbreak Isiah Thomas 1984 Basketball Shoes Vintage High Top Sneakers

Here’s a 1984 vintage ad for the Converse Fastbreak basketball shoes featuring Isiah Thomas.

Ad info is below:

A LIGHTWEIGHT FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT.

The Converse Fastbreak. It’s easy to see why top pros like Isiah Thomas wear it. It's designed with a super lightweight nylon/leather upper that has the kind of support you'll find in full leather uppers. But it weighs a lot less. Plus, we designed the Converse Fastbreak the way we design all our athletic shoes. By working with top athletes and coming up with improved biomechanical designs to satisfy their needs. Which is the reason a shoe as light as the Converse Fastbreak carries so much weight with the pros.

©1984 Converse Inc.

CONVERSE

Reach for the stars. Reach for Converse.
The Official Athletic Shoe of the 1984 Olympic Games.

Hoop Stars: Converse All-Stars 1975 Basketball Shoes Vintage Sneakers Print Ad

Here’s a 1975 vintage print advertisement for the Converse All-Stars 1975 basketball shoes which were selected by Team USA for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Ad info is below:

We’ve put our basketball shoes on the line in every Olympic year since 1936.

Converse All Stars.

They color the action.

Berlin 1936,
London 1948,
Helsinki 1952,
Melbourne 1956,
Rome 1960,
Tokyo 1964,
Mexico City 1968,
Munich 1972.

converse

an Eltra company

Selected again for use by the U.S. team for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal