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" There&amp;#039;s no shortage of weird-looking sneakers on shelves right now. On one hand there are the latest basketball shoe designs combining NASA-level exotic materials and Giger-esque techno-organic shapes. On the other hand there&amp;#039;s no shortage of shoes being resurrected from the &amp;#039;90s, an era where there was seemingly no outline too chunky or gimmick fit-enhancing technology too gimmicky to make it to market. Then there&amp;#039;s Nike&amp;#039;s deeply idiosyncratic Roshe Run. Inspired by Zen monks and released in 2012, from its blunted toe to its bubbly heel the shape falls somewhere in between retro-inspired and futuristic. It almost looks like something out of a cartoon, an attribute that&amp;#039;s only been emphasized by the often outlandish colorways and materials various iterations have sported on the upper. But here&amp;#039;s the thing: take the Roshe Run down off the shelf and put it on and a lot of its goofy qualities disappear, replaced by an intriguing ambiguity\u2014sometimes it looks like a retro running shoe, sometimes like a futuristic moccasin, but usually somewhere in between. For this reason it&amp;#039;s quickly proven itself to be one of Nike&amp;#039;s most versatile styles. Over the past couple years I&amp;#039;ve seen them worn with everything from overalls to formal shorts, and although they seem best paired with a T-shirt and crisp dark selvage jeans or a pair of soft chinos (rolled up over the ankle) and an artfully rumpled button-up, I can&amp;#039;t remember seeing an instance where they didn&amp;#039;t work.  Nike&amp;#039;s designers have obviously been having fun bouncing ideas off the basic Roshe Run template. Their current selection of mass-market offerings includes woven patterns, neon colors, quilted fabrics, and paint-spattered soles, plus a growing range of mid-high-tops and &amp;quot;SneakerBoots&amp;quot; that riff on vintage chukka and hiking boot designs. Add in enough limited-editions that there are entire websites devoted to keeping track of them and you have an incredibly robust stylistic vocabulary that should be able to fit any mood or sneaker-appropriate situation imaginable. No matter which pair you go with, the Roshe Run will always communicate at least two things about you: that you know the important difference between workout shoes and casual sneakers, and that you know that being serious about how you dress doesn&amp;#039;t always need to be so serious. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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