TRETORNMen's Nylite Canvas Sneakers

I started buying Tretorn about 15 years ago and currently have about 10 pair in active service: the classic canvas Nylite (Bjorn Borg), suede, leather; plus I have rubber rain shoes and boots and wellies. They started out 125 or more years ago making rubber boots and then started making tennis shoes in the '60s for the likes of Borg. The Nylite canvas fit right, are comfortable for walking, look great with khakis and a blazer at the club or around town, and you can STILL play a set of tennis in them if you are like me, a contemporary of ... Bjorn Borg. If they get dirty, just throw them in the washer and stuff some newspaper in them when they dry. Great, iconic, lifestyle tennis shoes, in a class all their own. Also, go extremely well with your Adidas iconic Beckenbauer track suit. If you want to hang out at the terrace cafe for an hour of a Saturday AM, and you are the kind of person who cares about this stuff, somebody will ask you 'where did you get those shoes?' Once, a very attractive 50-ish woman also in a Franz Beckenbauer track suit approached me and asked that exact question. I don't think you can go wrong, honestly, whether you are 16, 26. 56 or 76. I think age is mostly in your head, and style is timeless.

Great shoe. Very comfortable!

The show is VERY light and Very comfortable to wear. However, for walking, there is no arch support (ZERO) as the souls are completely flat. Not sure how that works for people but it did not work for me.

Love them so much so comfy feel like your walking on clouds i will definitely buy more pairs like this in different colors

I only wish they had leather as well in the same color.

What I wanted.

I bought my first pair of Tretorn sneaks in 1974. It was blatantly obvious to me that I had found a sneaker for life and bought all six pairs the store had in stock in my size. One of the few smart things I’ve done. The last pair died last month. Ordered ONE pair (I’m an old man now) from Amazon and upon opening the box was a little disappointed that they had stopped padding the tongue …. just a flat, stiff strip of canvas. This is a problem. The top edge of the tongue is like a dull knife pressing against the top of my ankle leaving a red line of irritated skin across my ankle. Damn. This will correct itself over time but I don’t want to put up with that. I’ve bent back the top of the tongue and clamped them with clothes pins hoping that will solve it. If not, I’m gonna be forced to pull out my heavy duty scissors. Pro tip: A good spraying with Scotchgard water repellent goes a long way in keeping ‘em clean.

The last time I had a pair of these was when I was 17 years old in 1978. Billy Joel’s “52nd Street” album had just been released and there he was wearing some Tretorn tennis shoes on the front album cover. Needless to say, I ran out of the house and down the street to my local shoe store and bought a pair. When this new pair arrived I put them on and suddenly felt an electrical surge run through my body. I started shaking and a voice proceeded from my lips and I started singing: You had to be a Big Shot, didn’t ya?

I had the same brand and color from 25 years ago and the comfort and style is still the same.

Love my Ts. Bought them for the nostalgia, as I had a pair back in the late 80s . Loved them then and I still love them today

Love these shoes. Super comfortable. Better than I remembered.

Light and comfortable

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