Training shoe snobbery

[mybike]

White leather(ette) new balance with a white NB . Trainers of choice as a teenager . Cost me £35 in 1986 and I had to go to Liverpool to get them . All the way from Wales, on the Wrexham bidston line... Eeeeh it were all fields here when I were a lad

When I were a lad we didn't have trainers. (pause for those who want to add other "we didn't have" statements)

We had plimsolls. (alternative from spell checker was camisoles so I think that's right.)

 

[Piemaster]

We had plimsolls

Can the thread be locked before it moves onto espadrilles?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Can the thread be locked before it moves onto espadrilles?

And what's wrong with THOSE?? You still haven't answered the Croc question!!

 

[tyred]

I have a pair of New Balance trainers that are knocking on for 30 years old, and a pair of Adidas running trainers that are probably 15 years old. They are the only clothes I have that still fit me after all that time. Footwear rocks.

Did you ever consider wearing them or walking somewhere?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Why?? Wearing them around the house is much better than socks!


So, what is the problem??

Socks are great for indoors. They brush the dust off the floors and deposit the muck where I sit most often. So out with the dustpan and brush, all gone, no need for the vacuum cleaner at all.

Sent from my Smart Underwear.

 

[Piemaster]

And what's wrong with THOSE?? You still haven't answered the Croc question!!

What was the thread title again? I don't need a reason to be snobby about it or explain it. It just is. So there.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

When I were a lad we didn't have trainers. (pause for those who want to add other "we didn't have" statements)

We had plimsolls. (alternative from spell checker was camisoles so I think that's right.)

Pumps trump plimsolls chronologically. And after plimsolls, Dunlop Green Flash had a moment of glory.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What was the thread title again? I don't need a reason to be snobby about it or explain it. It just is. So there.

Sounds like a cop out to me!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What was the thread title again? I don't need a reason to be snobby about it or explain it. It just is. So there.

Betcha don't even know, do ya??

 

[Piemaster]

Sounds like a cop out to me!!

Betcha don't even know, do ya??

Not telling

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not telling

Well, I'll wear them with pride, and if I ever meet you and you slag them off, I will give you a good kick..... Oh, no, wait, I might injure myself..... I'll just call you a nobber!!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

What an eye opening thread ! I do my best to ignore youths in the street, I don't give a monkey's what they think about what I'm wearing, or what they think about anything in fact. I find it amazing that anyone over the age of 16 would take any notice of them and even more amazing that they would speak to them about their comments. And I don't wear trainers in any case

 

[summerdays]

Can the thread be locked before it moves onto espadrilles?

I had a pair of espadrilles that were really comfy, I interailled in them. I saw a pair in the shops a few years ago and bought them expecting to relive that comfy feeling but my feet have move on now. The probably get one outing a year now!

 

[Brandane]

What an eye opening thread ! I do my best to ignore youths in the street, I don't give a monkey's what they think about what I'm wearing, or what they think about anything in fact. I find it amazing that anyone over the age of 16 would take any notice of them and even more amazing that they would speak to them about their comments. And I don't wear trainers in any case

I think I would be quite chuffed if any yoofs "dissed" (or whatever word they use this week) me. At least it would mean they didn't just consider me to be some old duffer, so it doesn't matter what I wear.
That's the way it would have worked in my day anyway. Anyone over 25 could wear whatever they liked because they were old and past it, so it didn't matter .

 

[SteCenturion]

At least you can afford shoes, when we were kids........

we wore hollowed out lumps of coal & thanked our lucky stars.