Yes. El, if you shop online for ANYTHING, I recommend that you join a collectors group on the Internet or Facebook of that certain memorabilia. Fellow collectors can fill you in on scams, ripoffs, and stores in the general area to still clear from. I've saved myself a lot of personal grief by doing this.
Yeah, I follow www.BaconSports.com for my Random NBA Jersey game which is pretty good. They do podcasts and stuff.
The real hipsters still rock Avia or roos (I was really tempted to cop an Avia Drexler t-shirt off ebay)
If there was ever a group to spend your life trying to disassociate yourself from, it would be this one.
This thread went down the shitter. You shoe geeks need to start your own thread. Dont hijack Dame's thread!
Wow, and I thought I was deprived when, as a child in the '60's, my parents would only buy my brothers and I the J.C. Penney knock off versions of the Chuck Taylor's, instead of the real thing. I battle self esteem issues to this day......
I feel your remembered pain. My mom worked at Sears so I got the Sears knock offs. I'm pretty sure that the size of my genitalia were adversely impacted. Greg Oden's mom never made him wear knock offs, right?
Nope, Oden's mom obviously bought him the best damn kicks available.........in multiple styles.......And blue Chucks?? When I got a summer job and could finally afford to buy my own Chucks, they only came in black and white. How did we survive??? Interesting side note.....the only (and I mean only) difference between the Penney's shoes and "genuine" Chucks was the label on the heel (low top) and side (high top). The shoes were made in the exact same factory!! My folks weren't as dumb as I thought they were......
When I buy shoes (and clothes) I typically care about two things: 1. How comfortable they are and 2. Not standing out in a bad or good way. I usually want my apparel to draw as little attention as possible.
Yeah i rock black vnecks and jeans with some pretty nice leather sneakers. I always dress like I'm in the swedish house mafia sent from a phone you've probably never heard of