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My Vans Off The Wall Skate Shoes (2000- 2003 retired) . I cannot skate, nor do I want too. However, when I was in a Vans outlet store one day, and saw these shoes, I wanted them. They look like those converse all star shoes, were a size too big, stuck out too far, but they were so cool. I got them for a tenner back in 2000. Now, thanks to Jackass, Avril Lavigne and the resurgence of all things skate punk, they are going for fifty quid. Unfortunately because I only paid a tenner for them, I treated them as my trashy shoes that I used for everything. They went mountain biking, canoing, climbing. For a time they were my only pair of dark shoes, so they went to school as well. Soon, they got so trashed that I only wore them at gigs (they had the unique advantage of not being able to ever fall off your feet, even without the laces done up). Their last use was at the Cooper Temple Clause gig on February 12th, 2003. I'm going to try to resurect them by means of a shoe shop next time I go home. I live in hope.
Got these in the same outlet store. Wore them for three years when I wasn't wearing my other pair of vans. Nothing special apart from super comfy. Still, I was quite emotionally attached to them.
I got these for walking, suprisingly enough. They are brown, and very funky. They started to fall apart after a few years, and I retired them when our Duke Of Edinburgh Awards Tutor Person told me off for wearing them with the thread coming out. I still have them, but I doubt they can be fixed.
Got these in Norwich to replace my falling apart other shoes, took a bit of breaking in, but they are very very funky. And Brown. And possibly suede. I like that word.
Getting these next week hopefully. I'm not sure what make, or what type, but they'll be so cool. Cooler than a cool thing in the cold (a polar bear possibly?). Expect me to scale many a wall wearing these babies. They'll be ten percent off to, as the outdoors shop is over the road and we are forever accepting parcels off them from el postie as they all have a lie in and don't open til 9:30.
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ahhh most excellent! shoes are great... and gola shoes: man i saw a pair of those babies in town last week going for £10... though i resisted the urge to buy another pair of trainers
oh and sorry about the archive being password protected thus lack of permalinking.... i'm trying it out to stop er spam commenters leaving oh-so-pleasant comments. unless anyone else has a better idea to stop evil spammers....
ooh and did i ever say that your designs are ever so funky? now i have :)
Ooo and I like the smilies in the comments too. Funnily enough, I've only just noticed. They've probably been there for yonks...:S
I noly own two pairs of trainers. Does that make me a slight shoe-whore?
I only own one.
me too
thanks for the kind words and the hyperlink ... and the traffic it brought!
No worries dean! Nosila the best way to stop comment span on your archives is to close all your archives's comments. Google for the closecomments script and run it. You'll probably have to do it once a month or so but it works wonders
I have duffs that were bought by the crack ho. Very Comfy shoes and named after a beer in quite possibly the best animated show on television
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