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Some good trainers to be had. Im waiting til end of month for my new uns

Edited October 19, 201411 yr by Horwich

Now and again adidas will bring some trainers out that are durable, well made and with decent materials - often consortium or 1/500 stuff though. I've a pair of them special edition Mita Tobaccos that look like theyll last a long time, with sensible wear.

 

But like you say, look at the general release stuff its often falling apart before its even off the shelf. Lost count of the number of times Ive seen something in Size, picked it up thinking it looked okay then realised you can see lines of dried glue seeping out from the toebox, or mis-shapen soles. Disgrace really

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by Marc505

I'd rub them in the faces of the staff (the shoddy workmanshipped trainers), well maybe not the staff, the manager perhaps...

Thats what happens when kids make shoes. Shoddy workmanship

Get their parents doing the finishing I say, get the kids doing the donkey work - tanning the leather, working the rubber plantations and such...

Trigger's brush...

 

This brings to mind another thing...

 

We in t'north are a resourceful lot, appropriating specialist wear; workwear, yachting gear, golf clothes, motorbike stuff, fishing, tennis, hiking gear etc. and wearing it for everyday use, the problem is the manufacturers twig this is happening and start producing shit 'fashion' items...

 

When this happens the main reason it was appropriated in the first place, it's durability, gets sidelined - thus they become shit.

 

I bought a pair of Caterpillar boots around 1993, Made in America and meant for work, these days they may look fucked but they're still just about wearable...

 

A pair bought today would probably last a year.

 

Peter Storm, Burberry, Berghaus, Belstaff, Henri Lloyd, Helly Hansen, Fred Perry...the list could go on, you name it, once it starts being produced for 'fashion' purposes it goes turd quality-wise.

 

adidas is no longer the brand it once was, they can bring out all the 'colorways' and re-issues they like, when a pair of Nizza lasted me less than six months (being rotated too, not constant wear) - that's when I was finished with them as a brand.

Carhartt is another brand thats gone shit for fashion. Used to wear their black pants when I worked in retail warehouses lugging boxes and pallets around lasted me yonks.

Bought a pair for wearing in the office and the lasted less than six months till the stitching came appart.

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by frank_spencer

I had a top by them in my 'workclothes' hamper for ages, must've been from, well, I wore it in Cardiff for the playoff final, anyway it got relegated to workwear, but was still structurally sound until it finally gave up the ghost this year...

 

One bought today would probably be in tatters by Christmas.

Carhartt is another brand thats gone shit for fashion. Used to wear their black pants when I worked in retail warehouses lugging boxes and pallets around lasted me yonks.

Bought a pair for wearing in the office and the lasted less than six months till the stitching came appart.

 

Bad case of crotch rot there Frank.

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by Whites man

In the queue now, fucking round the block!

Good luck getting what you're after mate, hope its not chaos when they open the door!

Moving slowly, good thing is people want stuff in different sizes.

What are you after Carlos?

 

Quite like the t-shirts, still undecided about the Topangas

Handburg for me, if I don't die of famine first.

Im just after Topangas. Was going to try for a t-shirt or two as well but going to have to save a bit and see how these Stockholm and Rouge reissues look in the next week or so

 

Theyre going reissue mad at moment, and we're lapping it up!

The rouge look a bit shiny on the images I've seen.

Im just after Topangas. Was going to try for a t-shirt or two as well but going to have to save a bit and see how these Stockholm and Rouge reissues look in the next week or so

 

Theyre going reissue mad at moment, and we're lapping it up!

Woah Woah Woah, Stockholm reissue? When?

8th nov if memory serves me right

Any pics? Where's stocking em? Is it general release?

 

Not had my ear to the ground since I had my lad.

No pictures as yet of the Sotckholm reissue which is strange seen as theres a couple of Rouge ones and there were Bern before its release (what the hell is going on with them btw, look like mid-tops at the ankle!) but not a thing so far about Stockholm.

 

Was quite impressed by the latest Rouge picture I saw Traf, definitely one to be having a look at when theyre out

i'm after these tomorrow

 

http://www.hanon-shop.com/news/2544/adidas-Originals-Bern-OG.html

If I can get the Bern and Stockholm I'll be happy.

After queueing 3 hours, missed out on Touring by a midges dick, but bought some Topanga that I didn't fancy at first.

 

Some serious trainers on display in the queue.

After queueing 3 hours, missed out on Touring by a midges dick, but bought some Topanga that I didn't fancy at first.

 

Some serious trainers on display in the queue.

 

of all the people I know, I would have thought you would be the least likely of any of them to queue for 3 hours for a pair of pumps

Was a good crack, bit like going to the football without football ruining it.

 

Some baghead asking what's the queue for? Sunbed shop you pale prick.

Did they throw in the book too?

 

Saw some pics this morning of a few people who bought all four pairs