Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Thu 1:19, 22 Aug 2013 Post subject: Jeepers creepers

Jeepers creepers
Sneakers respond like whiplash to fashion trends; faster than anything else in the average wardrobe, faster than their laces can fray, their Velcro flatten or their soles wear thin.
Sneakers (by definition,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], any casual - not athletic - closed-top, flex-soled shoe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], descended from the New Liverpool Rubber Company's original,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], mid-19th-century "sandshoe") don't wear out. They just drop out of favour. (Pfft! Gone.)
The visual slang of modern sneakers can be as complex and changeable as the MTV top 100, or as bullseye direct as a bumper sticker. Who are you? Who do you yearn to be? We can tell by your sneakers. We can see if fantasy, practicality, or sheer disinterest prescribed the ones you picked.
Are you a funky X or Y-gen in Vans, Skechers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Converse "Chucks", Pony, K-Swiss or Tretorns? Or middle-aged and wishing you were 30 again in Campers, Keds or a pair of Sauconys? Would the new Guccis, Pradas, Vuittons or Diors better suit your style, darling?
Or perhaps a pair of Onitsuka Tigers would convince us you're not an open book after all? Are you sensible in Dunlops,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], pragmatic in Brooks, athletic in Asics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fresh from tennis in Ellesse, chic in Diadora, hanging out in Globes?
There are hundreds of sneaker labels and shapes, and just as many languages. Doubters should cruise the boggling range around,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], from the kilometres of racks at Rebel, Foot Locker and The Athlete's Foot,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to the mini-collections in scattered, off-beat, urban-wear boutiques from Greville Street in Prahran, to Brunswick Street in Fitzroy.
It's all but guaranteed that adidas, Nike, Fila and Puma et al will sell a zillion of their latest fad-magnet sneakers (whatever they are this season,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but do note, "classic" is pivotal in the sneaker-speak of global brands now, so watch for regular neo-post-nouveau-revamped updates of "authentic originals").
But there are also significant numbers of sneaker-seekers who crave the rare, the off-beat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the "unique that speaks",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so hungrily they will go to extraordinary lengths to get it. Anything, it seems, to set them apart from the masses.
In 2001,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for example, the New York Times reported a sharp rise in thefts of rental bowling shoes from bowling alleys. Never mind that the bog-ugly striped leather-upper bowling sneaker was being replicated,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fad-style, in dozens of sneaker collections and was freely available in every category from budget to designer - the connoisseurs preferred theirs genuine, and with the alley's imprint on the back.
Lately, frenetic internet sales of original and vintage adidas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Converse "Chucks",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], classic Nikes and Dunlops and genuine wrestling and boxing shoes, suggests the yen for authenticity hasn't waned.
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