Robben started playing football on WOODEN SHOES as a young boy.

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Athletic shoes were everywhere: offsetting suits on boy models at Raf Simons, adding spring to the step of seasoned front-row editors.

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He is an All-American boy from Florida who wears patriotic grills in his mouth and patriotic shoes on his feet.

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Setting aside the safe-and-sane character shoes I was planning to wear onstage tonight, I cast my lot with the bad boy.

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