Still lame ...

[Mullins, Bill]

>Thanks, Bill. You made it possible to recall that it was Cecil Gant, a
>blues singer-cum-comedian who introduced me to "Seymours: see more
>feet than you do shoes."

In my elementary school days, before Nike became dominant in tennis shoes (pronounced "tennyshoes"), Converse All-Stars ("Limousines for the Feet!") were the best shoes that you could have on the school playground.   Then Keds Red Dots.  If you couldn't afford good tennies, you had to wear "buddies", which was any cheap tennyshoes.  There was even a song about buddies, set to the tune of Col. Bogey's March:

Buddies
Make your feet feel fine
Buddies
Cost a dollar forty nine

I forget the rest of the lyrics.

There was a while that Adidas (All Day I Dream About Sex) was the best shoes.  But eventually Nike took over.  One local shoe store said, in their radio commercials:

I Like Nikes
Man Oh Man
Fish can't wear 'em
But you and me can.

And Nike was always pronounced like "Mike", not like the goddess.

And if you had to keep wearing your pants even if you'd gotten too tall for them, because you couldn't get new ones until next school year, you were wearing "highwaters" (they exposed your ankle, and wouldn't get wet in high water).