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Converse All Star: what Hi, Ox, 70 and First String change, and how the size chart reads
The words after the name decide which shoe you are buying. The size chart decides something else, and which chart applies is decided by the style code rather than by the word Converse.
Chuck Taylor All Star is not one shoe in our catalogue. It is a family of thirty pairs we can name, and almost every one of them is told apart from the next by a single word sitting between the name and the colourway. Those words are not decoration and they are not seasonal: they mark a different cut, a different build or a different line, and they change what the pair is worth looking at for. Two of them also mark a size that is not the size you think it is, which is why the second half of this page is about the chart rather than the shoe.
The words that sit between the name and the colourway
Read down a list of our Converse pairs and the words appear in the same place every time: Chuck Taylor All Star, then the word, then the colourway. The word is the field that carries the most information and the one most often dropped when a listing is written short.
The words are data, so they are not translated; the notes are ours and come from the names in our catalogue.
| The word | What our listings show under it | A code from this page |
|---|---|---|
| Hi | The high-top pairs. Our catalogue also spells it out as High on the First String pairs. | A17699C |
| Ox | The pairs cut below the ankle, listed alongside the high-tops in the same colourways. | A17700C |
| Lo | The plain low pairs, filed without the All Star wording in the name at all. | A16122C |
| 70 | The pairs whose names carry the number: a Hi and two Ox, the Collina Strada collaboration. | A19047C |
| First String | The premium line — four pairs here: two in premium leather, two in heavyweight canvas. | A14280C |
| Lift Platform | The platform build, listed here in a women's pair. | A17979C |
| EasyOn | The pair whose name says EasyOn, listed in a pre-school size. | A17702C |
| Throwback | The pair named Throwback Low, on its own code and in a colourway of its own. | A19080C |
| Element | The pair named Element Boot — the only boot filed under the All Star name here. | A17642C |
One detail is worth pulling out of that table. Hi and Ox are not two products with two names — they are two cuts of the same colourway, and in our catalogue they arrive in pairs. The Hello Kitty and Friends run gives you a Hi and an Ox on codes that sit next to each other; the Minions run does the same. So the word is doing the work a size field does elsewhere: it is the difference between the pair you wanted and the pair that arrives.
The chart is chosen by the code, not by the brand
Converse is the one brand in our sizing config that carries a second full family of charts. Alongside the plain Converse conversion there is a Converse Standard conversion, each with a men's and a women's side, and both are published — /sizes/converse and /sizes/conversestandard. Which one a given pair is measured against is not decided by the brand word. It is decided by the style code, and our config carries a measurement for 2,204 Converse codes: 1,494 of them sit on the Converse chart and 710 sit on the Converse Standard chart.
Where we have no measurement for a code, the pair falls back to the rule by brand word, which is why two listings that read alike can be measured against different charts. Of the thirty pairs on this page, twenty-three have a measurement in our config and seven do not — and every one of the twenty-three resolves to the plain Converse chart, not the Standard one. That is not a claim about Converse in general; it is what our own measurements say about the pairs we list, and it is the reason the code is worth checking before you trust a size.
Twelve of the thirty, chosen to show both outcomes. The code and the chart are data and are not translated.
| Style code | What our catalogue names it | The chart our measurement puts it on |
|---|---|---|
| A17699C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi Hello Kitty and Friends Charmed | Converse |
| A21842C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi Dragon Ball Z Goku | Converse |
| A19047C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star 70 Hi Collina Strada Mellow Rose | Converse |
| A17700C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Ox Hello Kitty and Friends All-Star BFFS | Converse |
| A14280C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star First String High Heavyweight Canvas Beluga | Converse |
| A17979C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Lift Platform Hi Leopard Suede (Women's) | Converse |
| A19080C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Throwback Low Black Vintage White | Converse |
| A17859C | Converse Chuck Taylor Lo Red Bloom Pink (Women's) | Converse |
| A21405C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi Minions White (PS) | No measurement — brand rule |
| A19055C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi Valentine's Day Vintage White (2026) (Women's) | No measurement — brand rule |
| A16122C | Converse Chuck Taylor Lo Egret Black | No measurement — brand rule |
| A17642C | Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Element Boot 'Egret Black' | No measurement — brand rule |
How the Converse chart reads against the Nike one
The most useful thing about the Converse conversion is how little it looks like the chart most people have in their head. On our Converse chart the UK and US numbers are the same all the way up: a UK 8 is a US 8, a UK 10 is a US 10, a UK 12 is a US 12. On the Nike chart the same UK sizes are larger US sizes, a half size bigger at the bottom of the range and a full size from UK 8 upward. And in EU terms the two charts diverge by a whole size in the middle of the range: the Converse UK 8 is an EU 41½, where the Nike UK 8 is an EU 42½.
Two conversion rows from config/sizing.json, side by side. The numbers are data, so nothing here is translated.
| UK | Converse EU | Converse US | Nike EU | Nike US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 36 1/2 | 4 | 36 1/2 | 4.5 |
| 8 | 41 1/2 | 8 | 42 1/2 | 9 |
| 9 | 42 1/2 | 9 | 44 | 10 |
| 10 | 44 | 10 | 45 | 11 |
| 11 | 45 | 11 | 46 | 12 |
| 12 | 46 1/2 | 12 | 47 1/2 | 13 |
The women's side adds one more thing to hold on to. On the women's Converse chart the US number runs two above the UK — a UK 7 is a US 9 — where on the men's chart the two are identical. So the same UK size means different things depending on which side of the chart the pair was measured against, and the pairs we list in women's sizes are exactly the ones where it matters. If you are converting a size across shops rather than reading it off the product page, that is the pair of numbers to keep straight.
The pairs we list
Every Converse code in this list ends in the letter C, which is the form the brand has used for the pairs we carry; the long numeric codes in our measurement table are the older shape and turn up on pairs that have been listed the same way for years. The blocks below render today's offers, so nothing here needs a figure written into it that would be stale by the weekend. What is worth knowing before you open one is that licensing runs — the animated collaborations and the licensed characters — behave differently from the plain colourways: they arrive as a group, often in a Hi and an Ox and a child's size together, and they leave as a group.
The high-tops we hold, across the plain colourways, the licensed runs and the premium line. Each page names the shops that list that exact code.
How to use this
- Read the word between the name and the colourway before anything else. It decides whether you are buying a high-top, a low, a platform or a premium pair.
- Search by the full style code, including the letter at the end. It is the field the shops and our catalogue agree on, and the field our chart routing reads.
- Check the chart on the product page rather than converting from memory. The Converse conversion is not the Nike one, and the women's side of it is not the men's side.
- The Converse hub holds every pair of the brand we list, and the Converse release page carries what has a date on it.
- On a licensed run, decide which of the cuts you want before you start comparing — a Hi and an Ox of the same colourway are two different pages and two different sizes.
The other cuts: the Ox pairs, the plain low pairs, the boot, the EasyOn and the women's runs. Each page says plainly which shops have it, or that nobody does yet.
