Can Keens sneakers be cool?

Testing the 'Jaspers' to see what we can make of them

The spring equivalent of a pair of hiking boots could be a pair of sneakers that have laces that start at the very top of the shoe. Charlie (who shoots the pictures that are not living-room-selfies for this newsletter) pointed out that for Keen’s ‘Jasper’ style in particular, which either fall into the category of so-bad-they’re-good or plain-old-bad, w…