Topic: Football fashion/post yer trainees

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Oh no DeFacto, what have you done?

  Gotta take a risk here and there

[Cletus vanDamme]

I really wanted them Colagno,still upsets me I didn’t get them at the time.

I missed out on the grey Hochelaga SPZL in 2016, but scored a pair of once-worn last week from eBay. Gorgeous trainies, in great nick and at a reasonable price for a sought-after size 12 😬

[Cletus vanDamme]

I missed out on the grey Hochelaga SPZL in 2016, but scored a pair of once-worn last week from eBay. Gorgeous trainies, in great nick and at a reasonable price for a sought-after size 12 😬

Would have posted a pic but can’t even though I got one down to below 200kb

[PROPER crazyemlyn72]

TRX mcvicars coming out soon, with a mesh finish in the nice cw. I'll definitely be all over them, hopefully rattler will post a photo, I'm brutal at posting pics here.

[ianburns252]

I fully expect to get torn to shreds on this, but there is so much of trainer fashion that I just don't get.

Like, I get that Air Forces just look nice and clean, are pretty low key in terms of detailing so have a "smart" edge to them...but for the price I wouldn't risk wearing them out of the house for fear they'd get knacked!

Vans, Converse and so on are great for comfort, but high tops (if you have clown feet like me) are a bastard to get on/off - that said, the more pump style ones in a Converse, or Old Skools and similar seem like just normal shoes - easy one, comfortable, fairly durable.

So maybe I get it to some degree but here are the bits I don't get:

1) Why it is such a big deal - I'd swear I've read posts on Rawk and elsewhere about how sambas are the best thing every but that it is almost wrong to have certain other ones (see also the North Face etc debate)

2) What is with the revival of Fila and brands like that? And what is with the mega chunky design that everyone wants? Seems like they are about 3 inches to your height and have gone on a 2 month fast food bender/been crossed the the Nolan Batmobile to have all these extra bits on them and the sole

3) Saw someone posted some grey trainers up the page. They look nice but they also look most like they should be for walking in the countryside due to the extra grip soles.

Maybe I'm just starting to get old but I often think with fashion that I have never really "got it" so if anyone can enlighten me to the appeal, some of the history, that would be great.

[killer-heels]

Why dont you just wear what you like?

[ianburns252]

Why dont you just wear what you like?

I do - I'm just trying to understand the culture around it a bit better

[ianburns252]

im into my trabbs mate but it is a loadsa bollocks really eh all the snobbery etc and what you said aboot the samba is spot on. Fucking horrible trainers.

Most of the Adidas posted in here were the ones mancs were wearing in the 70s n eighties n the chunkier ones like the trim trabbs were the ones the lads round ours were wearing. We’d call most of the ones in here peado pumps cos they were basically just shite n ya woolyback pe teacher would have them on

I think old Adidas are shit nowadays to be honest and I loved them years ago but they ain’t dated well but ya know, opinions an all that …arseholes, everyone’s got one etc

Pretty sure I've just learned about 7 new words here!

I know some people who have shoe collections - which according to them the value could easily get the deposit of a house - and it just doesn't stack up for me. Think part of it was that my family are very "anti brand" and don't do spending a lot on clothes so I have never really had that influence or interest. Like why spend Ł100 on a shirt just to have some bell playing polo on it when I can get a perfectly good one, made from the same material, but plain for half or less?

This isn't to say that you shouldn't, but the value people put in to being seen in certain brands just seems weird.

I do realise as I type this that I have gone full Grampa Simpson shouting at clouds

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Pretty sure I've just learned about 7 new words here!

I know some people who have shoe collections - which according to them the value could easily get the deposit of a house - and it just doesn't stack up for me. Think part of it was that my family are very "anti brand" and don't do spending a lot on clothes so I have never really had that influence or interest. Like why spend Ł100 on a shirt just to have some bell playing polo on it when I can get a perfectly good one, made from the same material, but plain for half or less?

This isn't to say that you shouldn't, but the value people put in to being seen in certain brands just seems weird.

I do realise as I type this that I have gone full Grampa Simpson shouting at clouds

haha “That’s a paddlin” 

I have some trainers I bought just to keep and not wear. Reason being they were rare / collectibles so some of them made me a few quid. I do the same with records and Star Wars stuff.

I get ya mate, I do 

[ianburns252]

haha “That’s a paddlin” 

I have some trainers I bought just to keep and not wear. Reason being they were rare / collectibles so they made me a few quid. I do the same with records and Star Wars stuff.

I get ya mate, I do 

Records and Star Wars stuff make so much more sense to me as being collectibles due to the greater scheme of things around them. Like there is the lore of SW - I was in Crawley not long ago and ended up in a comicbook shop and saw a Grand Admiral Thrawn figurine which, because he was such an epic character in the Legends/EU and because one of my mates has a decent collection I couldn't not buy it for him to add to it.

With music, you can go and see them live, maybe even meet them, it feels like there is a human element.

Maybe this is just something that you just get or you don't?

Have remembered the one time I had a shoe craving though - the year was 2004 and the Geoff Rowley Vans that were out at the time were fucking quality. I think though that the fact I used to skateboard then, plus him being for Liverpool, was why I cared more about getting those than just getting myself any old pair that would do for what i needed.

[killer-heels]

The Stan Smiths have dated well in my opinion. You can make a case for the Gazelle’s, just about. But things like Samba‘s, Superstars havent.

[killer-heels]

I do - I'm just trying to understand the culture around it a bit better

Part of links to an association, be it to a place, a person, a group etc. and that doesnt just mean a famous person. A lot of fashion culture associated itself not with a celebrity but a group and time and that carries significance.

Sometimes people dont get that specific culture and its fine, they are not supposed to.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

The Stan Smiths have dated well in my opinion. You can make a case for the Gazelle’s, just about. But things like Samba‘s, Superstars havent.

i do like my Superstars but  know what ya mean though. But saying that, I’ve always thought Stan smiths were ugly

Comin in ere calling my superstars ugly, well your shoes are too

*runs off crying*

[AndyMuller]

I've always thought Adidas trabs are shite to be honest. Never understood all these weirdo adidas trab collectors.

[ianburns252]

Part of links to an association, be it to a place, a person, a group etc. and that doesnt just mean a famous person. A lot of fashion culture associated itself not with a celebrity but a group and time and that carries significance.

Sometimes people dont get that specific culture and its fine, they are not supposed to.

This is what I'm trying to learn about is the development of these associations.

As I say, I have mates who are in to it and I know people who collect and modify shoes almost like an art collection and that makes sense.

As someone who always saw shoes as functional more than anything I never had the association or exposure to it when younger but that doesn't mean without some context I wouldn't find the appreciation and maybe start to get into it myself - certainly when I see a nice pair of shoes/trainers I can appreciate them.

You can only "get" a culture if you have exposure to it though, can't you?

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

I've always thought Adidas trabs are shite to be honest. Never understood all these weirdo adidas trab collectors.

haha yup. When I was younger I’d have been impressed. But when I was younger I was an absolute fucking dickhead

[Andy @ Allerton!]

[deFacto please, you bastards]

I've always thought Adidas trabs are shite to be honest. Never understood all these weirdo adidas trab collectors.

Same here. The only thing that makes Adidas relevant today in terms of shoes, are the Yeezey's [even though some of the newer ones are absolute disgusting]

[killer-heels]

Same here. The only thing that makes Adidas relevant today in terms of shoes, are the Yeezey's [even though some of the newer ones are absolute disgusting]

I like the ones they did with Prada recently.

[voodoo ray]

ordered myself some more air max 90, this time from stockx. not used them before and fucking hell it's a slow process.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

I fully expect to get torn to shreds on this, but there is so much of trainer fashion that I just don't get.

Like, I get that Air Forces just look nice and clean, are pretty low key in terms of detailing so have a "smart" edge to them...but for the price I wouldn't risk wearing them out of the house for fear they'd get knacked!

Vans, Converse and so on are great for comfort, but high tops (if you have clown feet like me) are a bastard to get on/off - that said, the more pump style ones in a Converse, or Old Skools and similar seem like just normal shoes - easy one, comfortable, fairly durable.

So maybe I get it to some degree but here are the bits I don't get:

1) Why it is such a big deal - I'd swear I've read posts on Rawk and elsewhere about how sambas are the best thing every but that it is almost wrong to have certain other ones (see also the North Face etc debate)

2) What is with the revival of Fila and brands like that? And what is with the mega chunky design that everyone wants? Seems like they are about 3 inches to your height and have gone on a 2 month fast food bender/been crossed the the Nolan Batmobile to have all these extra bits on them and the sole

3) Saw someone posted some grey trainers up the page. They look nice but they also look most like they should be for walking in the countryside due to the extra grip soles.

Maybe I'm just starting to get old but I often think with fashion that I have never really "got it" so if anyone can enlighten me to the appeal, some of the history, that would be great.

I understand where you're coming from, even though I don't necessarily agree with all of it. The one thing I do agree, are the chunky sneakers from fashion designers [Balenciaga's for instance], which drive me mental when I see them, as they look horrible.

Some of the sneakers are associated with regions of a country, or just one particular part of the world, and some are just popular everywhere especially since the globalization of today's world and the internet connecting everyone. For instance from my neck of the woods, Air Max 90's [95's and 96s] have been the shoe for the past 30 years, a lot of it is to do with the time, who it was associated with, whether it be in street culture or in the entertainment industry, and it's still like that today.

Its similar to how our traveling lot would wear tracksuits on away trips whilst we were playing all over Europe.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

ordered myself some more air max 90, this time from stockx. not used them before and fucking hell it's a slow process.

Which colorway did you get?

[killer-heels]

ordered myself some more air max 90, this time from stockx. not used them before and fucking hell it's a slow process.

Yep, they have to go to a middle person (Stockx) to check that they are real.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Should start a non Adidas thread on here.

[ianburns252]

I understand where you're coming from, even though I don't necessarily agree with all of it. The one thing I do agree, are the chunky sneakers from fashion designers [Balenciaga's for instance], which drive me mental when I see them, as they look horrible.

Some of the sneakers are associated with regions of a country, or just one particular part of the world, and some are just popular everywhere especially since the globalization of today's world and the internet connecting everyone. For instance from my neck of the woods, Air Max 90's [95's and 96s] have been the shoe for the past 30 years, a lot of it is to do with the time, who it was associated with, whether it be in street culture or in the entertainment industry, and it's still like that today.

Its similar to how our traveling lot would wear tracksuits on away trips whilst we were playing all over Europe.

Fair - I think a lot of my lack of understanding comes from only finding an appreciation of them when I was I'm my 20s whereas I assume most get into this stuff from a younger age (could be wrong).

As I say, the lack of exposure to the culture historically means I don't really know the connections although the more I think about it, it is no different to me wearing check shirts all the time because it fits the music scene I grew up in.

Strangely, I kind of "get it" more in the US for example where they seem (from my knowledge) to have a greater culture around it - Jordans being the obvious thing.

Probably an argument that I've had greater exposure to US style "culture" through music and that so, even with growing up in Liverpool, I have fuck all idea other than a few bits picked up here about the subculture and connections within the city and arguably within the UK as a whole.

I do find it really interesting though so will try and take onboard what I can.

[Crimson_Tank]

Should start a non Adidas thread on here.

Why?

Spoiler

(last two pairs I bought were Adidas - a pair of Blue Dragons and a pair of Orange Busenitz)

[close]

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Why?

Spoiler

(last two pairs I bought were Adidas - a pair of Blue Dragons and a pair of Orange Busenitz)

[close]

For none Adidas trainers ya chuffin plant pot 

[tray fenny]

just got these for the gym

[AndyMuller]

just got these for the gym

Why mate?

[Crimson_Tank]

For none Adidas trainers ya chuffin plant pot 

  

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Need to find these somewhere

[CheshireDave]

Need to find these somewhere

Man City club shop??

Are they these?

https://www.prodirectrunning.com/p/nike-sportswear-air-max-90-se-signal-blue-white-game-royal-trainers-mens-shoes-243464/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj4HcpM_-8gIVja3tCh3gdg31EAQYASABEgKc1fD_BwE

I think these actually - https://www.goat.com/sneakers/wmns-air-max-90-first-use-da8709-400 - it's a women's shoe. Can't see a UK site selling them. They are Wmns Air Max 90 'First Use' university blue

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Yup just found its a Womans only release. Bummer

[Crimson_Tank]

Yup just found its a Womans only release. Bummer

Well Woman up and buy a pair in a larger size so you can wear them. Nobody will call you out for cross-dressing, promise.

[El Lobo]

defacto wears girls shoes, pass it on

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Well Woman up and buy a pair in a larger size so you can wear them. Nobody will call you out for cross-dressing, promise.

Sound advice 

[redgriffin73]

Yup just found its a Womans only release. Bummer

It's OK, we don't want them, you men can claim them

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Please let Nike know


I guess I'll have to settle for this once they're out

[Crimson_Tank]

Do they come in men's ?

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Do they come in men's ?

they come in Capon's.