Another Friday has come and gone. We all know Fridays are awesome. Friday is the arbiter, the announcer, the heralder of the weekend. And this amazingness is something to be celebrated at your workplace/school/place of being on Fridays.

That’s why Funky Fridays were created! Every Funky Friday, which is every Friday, people have chosen to clothe themselves in various items of extreme funkiness. If you don’t funk it up for Fridays, you should. Dress up! Dress down! Wear something funky, something smart, or just plain bad, it doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t stop with clothes.

You can extend it to what you carry, how you behave and the activities you undertake. Are you wearing a lampshade for funky Friday? Why not pretend to be a lighthouse? Wearing an absurd shirt? Find others and get together to wear the same absurd shirt and walk around pretending to be tourists! Whatever you decide to do, make sure it’s full of that fabulous quality FUNK!

What does FUNK even mean? According to the dictionary, it mean odour or jazz. But it says under slang: Outlandishly vulgar or eccentric in a humorous or tongue-in-cheek manner; campy, or unconventional. That translates as doing and wearing outlandish, somewhat lame, original and tacky things.

And research conducted at Darwin High School shows that Funky Fridays relieve stress! By giving senior students something to think about aside from their mountains of homework and grindingly hard exams, stress levels crashed, leaving students happy, calm and, of course, FUNKY!

So, remember to dress up in your funky Friday best next Friday. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a businessman or lazy bum, just remember to be funky next Friday.

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The shoe was first produced in 1917, to capture the eyes of basketballers. They weren’t very popular until Chuck Taylor chose them as a preferred footwear. Coloured and patterned shoelaces became well-liked to match the basketballers team colours and these were available before 1966. A lot more colours and styles were available afterwards. Most of the styles were co-designed by Taylor himself before he died in 1969.

Converse was soon bought by Nike where production of the shoe was moved abroad from America. This changed thefabric used to make the shoe from a 2ply cotton canvas to a 1-ply textile.The shoe is available in many different colours, prints and styles. It’s very rare to not see anyone wearing a Converse shoe nowadays. With the different colours and styles, it can pretty much match with any outfit and still look heaps cool.

The shoe has been a fashion trend for the punk-rockers since the late-1970s. ‘Chucks’ soon again became popular within the grunge culture in the 90s and also with Gangsta Funk! The shoes popularity soared with teenagers with its old school, rock-torn look which makes it the most successful shoe in history. Even with the emo scene, the shoe has been more popular with the rock scene.

750 million pairs of Chucks have been sold worldwide since the turn of the century and more every single day. Customisation of the shoe is now a must. Changing the shoe laces with other colours and adding beads, wearing two different shoes together, or even writing along the rubber of the shoe. But now, if you go onto the Converse website, you can create your own unique style, and they will make it, which in my opinion is really cool, and a way to show off to your friends.

It’s fair to say that the Converse won’t fail on producing anymore Chuck Taylors anytime soon, seeing its popularity within certain cliques and fashion trends, the shoe will be covering feet for a very long time.