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Article: Bowling for Burglars.(bowling alleys losing rental shoes as bowling shoes become fashion fad)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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GARISH and lowborn, the once-humble bowling shoe has been elevated to must-have footwear status. Primed by Kingpin, The Big Lebowski, and TV's Ed, alley attire jumped from the screen to Milan runways and onto with-it feet everywhere. That's good news for Prada and Kenneth Cole, whose gutter-glamour interpretations sell for up to $150. Unfortunately, local bowl-a-romas must now contend with unscrupulous scenesters making off with the real McCoys.
The profile? "Women sizes 7 and 8 and men size 11 to 12," soys one manager at Jillian's Hi Life Lanes in Universal City. Jillian's dim black-light milieu makes policing shoe returns problematic; each week o dozen or so ...