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# Brooks Brothers x Converse: The All Star Loses Its Stripe
- URL: https://www.unknowndivide.com/brooks-brothers-converse-all-star-aged/
- Published: 2026-10-06T01:21:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T21:23:56.000Z
- Description: The second Brooks Brothers x Converse sneaker drops the All Star's foxing stripe for a cleaner, 1950s wrestling-shoe profile, with Golden Fleece lace tips. Out October 14 in Japan.
- Author: unknowndivide staff
- Tags: Style

Heritage collaborations usually work by addition. Two old brands stack their logos, add a contrast color and a numbered box, and call the clutter a conversation between archives. The second Brooks Brothers x Converse sneaker, announced in Japan on October 5, wins by subtraction instead. It is not a louder All Star, but a quieter one, built on Converse's vintage-styled [All Star Aged](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DP3SCXD3?tag=unknowndivi02-20&ref=unknowndivide.com) and stripped of the foxing tape line that has wrapped the base of the shoe for so long that most people no longer notice it is there.

Both names carry more history than most collaborations can hold. Brooks Brothers opened in New York in 1818, introduced ready-made suits in 1849 and adopted the Golden Fleece, a sheep suspended from a ribbon, as its emblem in 1850\. The button-down collar followed after John E. Brooks noticed English polo players in 1896\. Converse was founded in Massachusetts in 1908 and released its first basketball shoe in 1917, the canvas design that became the All Star. These are two foundations of American dress, and both have changed hands more than once since then.

The reference point here is older than sneaker culture as you know it. The brands say the design draws on wrestling shoes Converse produced around the 1950s, which explains the clean, uninterrupted sidewall. Without the foxing stripe, the shoe reads less like a basketball relic and more like gym equipment from a school that still enforced a dress code. One extra eyelet has been added compared with the standard All Star Aged, and every eyelet is finished in silver rather than the usual tone, which pulls the profile a little closer to a dress shoe than a sneaker.

The Brooks Brothers side shows up in hardware rather than print. Metal lace dubrés carry the Golden Fleece, while the insole, tongue label and heel label carry both logos in navy, a double-name treatment made only for this collaboration. The outsole is navy too, the color most tied to Brooks Brothers. The high-top comes in a soft off-white, listed as Natural on [Converse Japan's page](https://converse.co.jp/blogs/news/collaboration-brooksbrothers-2610?ref=unknowndivide.com), and the low-top comes in navy. That flips the first round, which paired a faded navy high with a white low.

That first round arrived in spring 2025 and sold out immediately, according to Brooks Brothers Japan, which is why the follow-up feels less like an experiment and more like a refinement. It is also a Japan story first. Converse Japan says the shoes will not be sold through Converse at all, only through Brooks Brothers and the Baycrew's shops Edifice and Iena. That routing matters, because it positions the sneaker not as sportswear with a tailoring logo, but as something you buy in the same store as an oxford shirt, much as the [Dr. Martens 1460](https://www.unknowndivide.com/dr-martens-the-1460/) crossed from work boot to wardrobe staple without changing its shape.

The details are what you would expect from a shoe meant to sit next to tailoring. Both pairs are unisex and made in Indonesia, with sizes running from 22.5 to 28 centimetres plus 29 and 30 centimetre options, which the brand maps to US sizes 3.5 through 11.5\. The base shoe already carries the classic, vintage-leaning character Converse built into the Aged line, so the silver eyelets and metal tips read as the only polish on an otherwise relaxed shoe. If you have read our piece on [Fugazi's $5 Vans](https://www.unknowndivide.com/fugazis-5-vans-shoes-werent-a-fluke-they-were-the-plan/), you know restraint can be its own kind of statement.

The All Star Aged Hi costs ¥16,500 and the Ox costs ¥15,400, both including Japanese consumption tax, or roughly $105 and $100; exchange rates move, so treat the dollar figures as unofficial. Pre-orders opened on the Brooks Brothers Japan online store on October 5 and run through October 12, Japan time, and the shoes release on October 14 at Brooks Brothers stores in Japan, including some outlets, plus Edifice, Iena and the [Baycrew's online store](https://baycrews.jp/?ref=unknowndivide.com). No international release has been announced.

[Converse Chuck Taylor All Star High Top on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00418A05M?tag=unknowndivi02-20&ref=unknowndivide.com) · [Converse All Star Aged Hi on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DP3SCXD3?tag=unknowndivi02-20&ref=unknowndivide.com)

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