I think the stereotype is it's more of a dad shoe than a lady's one. I did stare at the picture for a decent amount of time because I got a sort of deja vu that it could have been a photo of my grandparents.
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Uzique probably showed the girl some pictures of a guy wearing NB sneakers at a Milan LGBTQ+ fashion show and told her "this is what everyone wears in Berlin where I am from". And she was like "Wow, so cultured. What's a Berlin?"
Awhile back I shotgunned a bunch of tennis shoe photos from I think Nike. The challenge was for people here to identify men's from women's from unisex, without looking it up. Were you ever able to?
If you're from the DC area, New Balances are the everyman's shoe rather than just dad shoes. It blows some people's minds when they notice it here.
I live in the land of socks and sandals, far be it for me to criticize someone picking NB over Nikes. Also, measuring a grey shoe against someone's masculinity is very cringe. Weird hang-up, anyway.
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It really doesn't bother me. I believe in the freedom to wear shoes. I am just sick of Uzique prancing around South Korea after his friends and associates found out he is gay. He is leading along this girl and is going to break her heart once he decides to flee back to the Berlin lifestyle he is running from.
lmfaoSuperJail Warden wrote:
Uzique probably showed the girl some pictures of a guy wearing NB sneakers at a Milan LGBTQ+ fashion show and told her "this is what everyone wears in Berlin where I am from". And she was like "Wow, so cultured. What's a Berlin?"
but yeah NB have been in vogue for a while now, lots of celebs and young people here in LA rocking the different colour ways. and before that they have always been somewhat big on the east coast like j5 was saying. i bought a pair of gray 990's several years back (before jack harlow became a brand ambassador lol) specifically because i wanted a US made shoe and they're actually pretty nice. i'm not really a sneaker head at all tho. my taste hasn't changed much since i was a teenager, my go to is always white stan smiths and other than that it's birkenstocks or flip flops for 8+ months out of the year.
edit: just realized i literally only have 2 pairs of sneakers in my wardrobe lol. the 990s and stan smiths. keep shit simple
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new balance as a brand has had a funny trajectory in the last 15 years. it went from 'dad shoes in ohio'/seinfeld to a streetwear/hypebeast brand. and the thing is, the popularity of the brand is still multigenerational. you have people in their 40s who are still wearing them, as they wore them in their 90s, as well as people born in the 90s now wearing them as part of a purposeful fashion look, etc.
the brand just signifies many things to many people in a way that, say, vans or converse do not. it's kind of an interesting case study from a business/marketing point of view, to be honest.
it's honestly funny seeing young american adults on this forum furrow their brow at the cachet of new balance, a fucking legacy american shoe company, whilst like literally every young european (male and female alike) will have owned a pair at some point. their mid-range trainers are incredibly popular in europe through, like, school-age to adult people.
'but muuhh grandad wears those!!!'
i think this discussion which has been on repeat for months/years would be made a whole lot easier if you guys posting here, just, uh, acknowledged the rather simple fact that you're a little behind the bell curve when it comes to general fashion. don't ya think? the cruddy remains of a 15-year-old gaming forum are perhaps not the best straw poll on fashion.
the brand just signifies many things to many people in a way that, say, vans or converse do not. it's kind of an interesting case study from a business/marketing point of view, to be honest.
it's honestly funny seeing young american adults on this forum furrow their brow at the cachet of new balance, a fucking legacy american shoe company, whilst like literally every young european (male and female alike) will have owned a pair at some point. their mid-range trainers are incredibly popular in europe through, like, school-age to adult people.
'but muuhh grandad wears those!!!'
i think this discussion which has been on repeat for months/years would be made a whole lot easier if you guys posting here, just, uh, acknowledged the rather simple fact that you're a little behind the bell curve when it comes to general fashion. don't ya think? the cruddy remains of a 15-year-old gaming forum are perhaps not the best straw poll on fashion.
imagine being so sheltered in your clapboard new jersey basement that you don't know about new balance's popularity in, say, baltimore or DC.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Uzique probably showed the girl some pictures of a guy wearing NB sneakers at a Milan LGBTQ+ fashion show and told her "this is what everyone wears in Berlin where I am from". And she was like "Wow, so cultured. What's a Berlin?"
go tell some hood black guy that his coveted NB's are 'gay'.
and i don't think south koreans need to be taught anything about fashion or brand awareness. lmao.
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No one has a problem with New Balance the brand. The big chonky tennis shoes though are still very popular among the older folk - my dad has 3 pairs of blue ones and that's fine. It has no impact on the rest of our lives if some influencers in LA started wearing them as a statement. Both things can be true.
You put an awful lot of thought into shoes, mac, for invoking the homo stereotypes. Not that there'd be a problem if you were.SuperJail Warden wrote:
In America we have Vans
tfw when your dad is drippin on you with the retro colour ways. and dude it's not just LA. they were already popular in other places before coming hereDesertFox- wrote:
No one has a problem with New Balance the brand. The big chonky tennis shoes though are still very popular among the older folk - my dad has 3 pairs of blue ones and that's fine. It has no impact on the rest of our lives if some influencers in LA started wearing them as a statement. Both things can be true.
gang shit
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Dude, you spent an hour making a shoe matching game. You are the shoe obsessed one.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
You put an awful lot of thought into shoes, mac, for invoking the homo stereotypes. Not that there'd be a problem if you were.SuperJail Warden wrote:
In America we have Vans
they're not even tennis shoes, lol. they are designed expressly as everyday streetwear/fashion shoes. they're not from the 'sporting' section.DesertFox- wrote:
No one has a problem with New Balance the brand. The big chonky tennis shoes though are still very popular among the older folk - my dad has 3 pairs of blue ones and that's fine. It has no impact on the rest of our lives if some influencers in LA started wearing them as a statement. Both things can be true.
this is a tennis shoe.
these have nothing to do with sports. they aren't marketed for sports.
i honestly don't know how you guys fail so fundamentally at fashion. lol. nobody is wearing a suede construction thick-soled shoe onto a tennis court. have you tried to play tennis? it's not like some niche hipsters have 'reappropriated' a shoe for sports players or retired dads and are ironically inverting it. these shoes are made and marketed for everyday wear.
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That's my bad. "Tennis shoe" is a colloquialism for any generic sneaker, which we don't tend to say 'round these parts.
I spent like five minutes copy-pasting images from a website after who knows how long you all were arguing about it. Days?SuperJail Warden wrote:
Dude, you spent an hour making a shoe matching game. You are the shoe obsessed one.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
You put an awful lot of thought into shoes, mac, for invoking the homo stereotypes. Not that there'd be a problem if you were.SuperJail Warden wrote:
In America we have Vans
Make it stop.
This. Some people around here call them tennis shoes too, but mostly I've heard Washingtonians generalize with "sneakers."DesertFox- wrote:
That's my bad. "Tennis shoe" is a colloquialism for any generic sneaker, which we don't tend to say 'round these parts.
i seeeee. thanks for the info.DesertFox- wrote:
That's my bad. "Tennis shoe" is a colloquialism for any generic sneaker, which we don't tend to say 'round these parts.
it's even more confusing because traditionally 'tennis shoes' here in the UK imply a sort of canvas or leather plimsoll, like old fred perry designs.
generally we refer to any all-white athletic sneaker now as a 'tennis show', though. but that does sort of exclude multicoloured suede shoes. you wouldn't get into the wimbledon club with those flagrant breaches of dress code.
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Hold on, you're saying the trainers I have been wearing for the last 20 years are now in fashion?
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no, they're not.
I was at a New Balance flagship store this weekend. They put those shoes in the "lifestyle" section.uziq wrote:
they're not even tennis shoes, lol. they are designed expressly as everyday streetwear/fashion shoes. they're not from the 'sporting' section.DesertFox- wrote:
No one has a problem with New Balance the brand. The big chonky tennis shoes though are still very popular among the older folk - my dad has 3 pairs of blue ones and that's fine. It has no impact on the rest of our lives if some influencers in LA started wearing them as a statement. Both things can be true.
this is a tennis shoe.
these have nothing to do with sports. they aren't marketed for sports.
i honestly don't know how you guys fail so fundamentally at fashion. lol. nobody is wearing a suede construction thick-soled shoe onto a tennis court. have you tried to play tennis? it's not like some niche hipsters have 'reappropriated' a shoe for sports players or retired dads and are ironically inverting it. these shoes are made and marketed for everyday wear.
I bought a few new pairs of shoes this weekend, and threw out a few. I have 14 pairs of shoes, and wear them all regularly.
4 pairs of work shoes
2 workout/athletic shoes
4 sneakers/lifestyle shoes
1 pair of golf shoes
1 pair of boots
2 pairs of boat shoes
I also have a few pairs of slides and flip flops. Do those count as shoes? Are moccasins shoes?
I had laser eye surgery a few weeks ago, £5,000 and probably one of the most cost efficient purchases I'll ever make.
My vision is better than 20/20 now, shoulda done it sooner.
My vision is better than 20/20 now, shoulda done it sooner.
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I bought for my birthday an original copy of the obscure book that I did my undergrad history thesis on. It was printed in 1898. The book is about the Fredericksburg campaign of the Civil War that the author was an infantry solider in. He talks about how his NJ church recruited people for union army and then how the campaign unfolded and his experience. The author returns home to go to an Ivy League seminary and than founds a Presbyterian church in NJ. The book was published by his family's press.
Oldest book I own. I have an original copy of his 1909 book too.
Oldest book I own. I have an original copy of his 1909 book too.
cool purchase. keep it away from sunlight and in a well cleaned place, if it doesn’t have a dust jacket. that cloth cover will spoil quickly.
I bought all three Max Payne games on the XBox marketplace. Remedy has been given the green light by Rockstar to do a remake of Max Payne 1 & 2 and I at least wanted the originals of those before they get taken off the store in case this remake ends up being dogshit like the GTA Trilogy remaster was.