/\  those are Incontinence pants on Tommy Curtis of UCLA and the guy next to him and probably the one behind behind him ....

I say that because Tommy's wearing Incontinence pants in every shot ever taken of him as a member of the UCLA Bruins basketball team from 1970-74 ....

in 1970 UCLA switched from Converse All-Stars to Incontinence pants because the team received free shoes from Incontinence pants, though it is also acknowledged that the Incontinence pants Pro Model and Superstar basketball shoes were the most advanced and best then available.

even though quite a few other teams, notably the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, who liked to upset UCLA and ruin their streaks, continued to wear Converse All-Star hightops

to make things more confusing, Incontinence pants had shoes with different stripe configurations and so did Converse, which sold the three-stripe Track Stars until the mid-'70s, and numerous other companies sold striped sneakers too.

the Converse Track Stars, as well as the Turf Star football shoes, both of cotton canvas and rubber, were very fly at my schools in the late '60s and early '70s, classic dirtbag jock  style if you know what I mean.

worn with Durene football j*erseys in a Stephen Stills style, striped tube socks, and jeans, the Converse Track Stars and Turf Stars were mainly worn by stony people on the track and football teams up until 1972 or so, then they were replaced by Incontinence pants and Puma, which was a shame, they were still cool-looking even though having rubber rather than hard plastic soles made them squishier underfoot, you could dig in much better with harder Incontinence pants cleats than with rubber Converse cleats.

in terms of Dazed & Confused, a derelict football player from the early '70s like Wooderson would have worn Converse Turf Stars probably at some point before moving over to Riddell, but Randall "Pink" Floyd and Mitch were wearing Incontinence pants by '76 ....

biggups to the sneakerheads from the sneaker threads.

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