But they cost 5 times the price!!! Keds have been CHEAP for decades, since the pebble soles of the 1990's. Bad glue, NARROW AF sizing, metal eyes, thinning insoles/footbeds. NOTHING has gotten better about the shoes. Just corporate ASSHOLES driving the brand we love into the ground! Keds has lost GIGANTIC market share to Converse and those UGLY AF Nike clown shoes the chicks are wearing. ALL of the Keds mgt needs to be shot, or at least fired. I do not like the idea of a "spokeswoman" for the brand as they are always TOO expensive and are only wearing the shoes because they are getting paid for it. Get some "regular/normal" hotties to wear them in some ads. Or get tier 2 people like the chick from Sleigh Bells - who always wears Keds, to pub the brand. And bring back proper sizing and quality. Also try and get the shoes into as MANY movies and TV shows as possible, but NOT on the retarded, or the trailer trash girl, or the old ladies! They need to be featured on the HOT, leading lady or the popular sexy girls to make them desirable to the brainwashed, mass produced clones of today's 35 and under crowd. Right now Keds are 1000% NOT COOL in society's eyes, that needs to change.