Fashion

[alliswell]

Tennis shoes.

[blackhole99]

What you call them might depend on where you live in the country and what you socioeconomic status was. I grew up in the 50's and on the poor side of town, we called them sneakers and I still do.

[sunshine45]

i call them sneakers or tennis shoes.

east coast, mid-atlantic area.

[IlliniGirl88]

Grew up calling them tennis shoes, but would now also call them sneakers.  

[handygal2]

I call them sneakers.

When my cousin in England called them "trainers," l didn't immediately know what he was talking about, lol.

[Vivian]

They're sneakers to me. I've certainly heard them called tennis shoes but even when I played tennis for 30 years, they were still sneakers.

[PhilaLady1]

Growing up we all called them sneakers and I still do. 

Here's another one - I never say cardigan.  They will always be sweaters to me.

[willdob3]

---

@house_cat wrote:

What do you call shoes like this?

I called them "sneakers" yesterday and my 12 year old students thought that was so funny. Some of them had never heard that word.  I guess I'm showing my age by calling them sneakers?

What would you call them?

---

@house_cat

I’ve called them so many things over the years that I’m not sure what I would call them on any given day. Sneakers, tennis shoes, trainers, gym shoes... 

What do your 12 year old students call them?

[willdob3]

---

@PhilaLady1 wrote:

Growing up we all called them sneakers and I still do. 

Here's another one - I never say cardigan.  They will always be sweaters to me.

---

@PhilaLady1

Most of my cardigans are not sweaters. 

[Bri36]

Gym shoes.