Training shoe snobbery

[Rooster1]

Don't listen to these fashion victims

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[SteCenturion]

lolz

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So yesterday...


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[coco69]

I was on the bus yesterday on the way back from a dental appointment and a bit of a shopping trip. I was wearing my new bargain training shoes i'd managed to pick up for 18 quid(down from 55 quid) when some school children made a comment to each other about them. I asked them what they found funny,they replied that they were naff or something else derogatory. What i do is buy trainers that are a decent make but way down in price. I don't stick to a particular brand, as long as they look ok and cost little i'll buy and wear them!
Have you been a victim of training shoe snobbery where someone has mocked them for not being the latest overpriced ones?

To be honest I wouldnt be arsed

 

[mybike]

The really trendy retro-fixie crowd use tweed.

Tweed, retro?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

These bliddy things probably explain a lot, then (especially in sixth year )........

Pfft..
you couldn't beat the 2/6 plastic sandals from Woolworths..
(canny find any images on line, phew)

Anyone else have a red ring of no confidence from wearing wellies all winter?

 

[swee'pea99]

I've been wearing Vibram Fivefingers pretty much all the time for everything bar cycling and ice climbing for nearly two years now, so I'm thoroughly used to the horrified / mocking / bemused looks now :-)

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[Mad Doug Biker]

I used to get slagged off at School for my trainers. People used to say things like

'Oh Rebok Airs are SO in this month!!'

Or whatever, and I would just sit there and think

'Who says??'

Really, its a load of utter, utter pish and the kids that slagged you should be pittied rather than derided!

 

[Piemaster]

I've been wearing Vibram Fivefingers pretty much all the time for everything bar cycling and ice climbing for nearly two years now, so I'm thoroughly used to the horrified / mocking / bemused looks now :-)

A lot of the looks come from my wife...
I've got a pair of those EL-X too, but find them too tight across the top of the foot to wear for long. Still much prefer the Classics (2 pairs), but they're so worn now I'll be happy if they last the summer out.

 

[Sea of vapours]

I've got a pair of those EL-X too, but find them too tight across the top of the foot to wear for long.

The solution to that is the KSO EVO: same sole as the EL-X but better heel and adjustable top area :-)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 3586578, member: 259"]It could have been worse, you could have been wearing Crocs. [/QUOTE]

And what, pray tell is wrong with Crocs??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I wear Crocs around the house, nothing wrong with them..... Except that I am asking what IS wrong with them?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This thread really should have been called

'The Great Shoe Snobbery'

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How cute. I had a pair of those once upon a time too. I was always a trend setter

My mother also insisted on me using a very old leather satchel type schoolbag which made me an object of ridicule
If I had it now I could probably sell it to the trendy retro-fixie crowd as a posh bike bag for a silly price

Never quite had that, but my Mum ALWAYS insisted on Clarks shoes for normal School shoes.
The irony is that my shoes would have lasted about 10 million times longer than any of the trainer crap that my mockers were wearing!

 

[vernon]

I was on the bus yesterday on the way back from a dental appointment and a bit of a shopping trip. I was wearing my new bargain training shoes i'd managed to pick up for 18 quid(down from 55 quid) when some school children made a comment to each other about them. I asked them what they found funny,they replied that they were naff or something else derogatory. What i do is buy trainers that are a decent make but way down in price. I don't stick to a particular brand, as long as they look ok and cost little i'll buy and wear them!
Have you been a victim of training shoe snobbery where someone has mocked them for not being the latest overpriced ones?

Nope because I don't give a fark about footwear. Snobbery only exists if you let it. Rise above it and starve it of life by not responding to the comments.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 3587563, member: 259"]Pssst. This is not the Post a Lie thread, Doug. [/QUOTE]

So Crocs, spill!!