str8 fire beautiful kix

I have image searched GGDB shoes and it appears that everything they sell comes faux-distressed

awful

Fake dirt

Yeah that's dumb as shit. I mean pre-distressed is generally dumb, but it can take months or years to get a good fade starting from a pair of new selvege jeans. White sneakers will get dirty in like a couple weeks of wear if you don't clean them.

ew faux distressed is some Journeys-tier bad

you must laboriously scuff and dirty your shoes over your own sink ime

insanely rich ppl need a way to look like they ever come in contact with dirt too

I totally willfully "destroyed" a pair of Diesel sneakers in college and they basically secured me my first college gf

lol

i have realized why all you hip nyc "cats" think my chucks schtick is so weird and dumb - basically nobody up here wears them. it's all vans and nikes. amazing.

oh and some NBs on the fascists I guess

the title of the thread is str8 fire beautiful kix not rationalize your shoes

I'm just trying to understand you

are you really

Yes

https://n.nordstrommedia.com/ImageGallery/store/product/Zoom/6/_102270806.jpg?crop=pad&pad_color=FFF&format=jpeg&trim=color&trimcolor=FFF&w=780&h=838&quality=70

thoughts??

to wear Chucks you have to be so preternaturally immune to self-consciousness that you are either a wizard or a sociopath

same will be true for Vans within several years

I can't wear that shit, I need arch support, hate how thin they are, str8 fire uncomfortable

to wear either you have to have good feet or high pain tolerance

haha xpost, exactly

how many pairs of sneaks do you ppl have

like I have one pair if you count my running shoes for actual running

but soon I will have two (at least I hope the roshes or golas work out!)

Uh

3

Put a 6 to the right of calstars’ answer.

brooooo

i think i have less than 10

soo tom is the reason u wear such um eccentric chucks releases because u collect them

I have chucks as lifting shoes. Now that it’s warm out I just walk to the gym in my workout clothes, but I feel deeply embarrassed wearing the chucks outside.

They hurt my feet if I walk further than about .1 miles

maybe two years ago I realized that like half of my undergrad students were suddenly wearing (exclusively) white (mostly) hi-top chucks; I still see lots of them around even at a totally different school thousands of miles away. This was funny to me because I own a pair of white hi top chucks that are older than some of these students.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0251/7969/products/s-l1600_70_1024x1024.jpg?v=1514160517

nah

I'll always rep for high-end NB's in grey. Did I just type that

You did but I can’t understand why

One of the very few sneakers you can wear to, say, a restaurant that is not McDonald's

Where do you people even live

I can't tell where you stand. Are you against sneakers as causual wear?

I wear sneakers every day. I wear sneakers to official meetings and speaking engagements

I also don’t understand people being embarrassed by chucks while other people rep for retired dudes’ sweatpants shoes. But as lagoon points out on the reg, it takes all kinds

You posted some wacky plaid chucks, don't be disingenuous

I’m not! Those woolrich special editions are awesome

i love both chucks and woolrich but.... lol

(i also love those new balance)

tho i used to be a big N new balance guy when i was younger, now im more of a small n new balance guy

fwiw i havent had a pair of new balance for fashion for a while tho they are my standard running shoe (obvs the running and lifestyle lines are pretty different)

currently running in what is a pretty lifestyley colorway of an actual running shoe

https://i.imgur.com/iqXKDrA.png

nb zantes are maybe my fave running shoe.....ever?

wide toebox, foam sole that falls right between minimal and medium padding, nice and light, fairly thin minimal upper, is basically the shape of my foot

nice, i never know what to get for running shoes. i have a pair of nike free rns from a couple years ago that i bought in theory as running shoes, but i decided the soles are too flexible for me to like them for that. they look pretty good, though, so i've just been wearing them for daily use lately.

yeah its tough, especially considering shoes companies nonsensical need to tinker with their designs constantly, you find something you like then have to go digging for more on ebay cause the new versions are fd up