them slip-on vans shoes
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Look, if you really like them, if they make you happy, buy them Milesy.
We won't laugh at you. Small children won't point at you in the street. Posh folks with yachts won't salute you and commed you on purchasing a pair of deck shoes, a kind of chinos of the fottwear world. Well, not much anyway.
We won't laugh at you. Small children won't point at you in the street. Posh folks with yachts won't salute you and commed you on purchasing a pair of deck shoes, a kind of chinos of the fottwear world. Well, not much anyway.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
It's getting quicker and quicker now, or maybe it's me.milesy said:
Vans Slip-Ons are great and well comfy, i am wearing some now, you won't slip in them unless you're on a wet tube station floor (such as Brixton) then you're in trouble, the Waffle Sole (TM) sucks up all the water into the little waffle holes and causes havoc with your shoe to floor friction!
Nope, Vans have been doing these for donkeys years, polo shirts too
PieEye said:Is this more of skate culture's commodification of affluent mainstream sportcasualculture? See the fondness for polo shirts amongst the Beastie Boys....
Nope, Vans have been doing these for donkeys years, polo shirts too
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
in 1989 i worked in barratts shoes on saturdays.
we sold lots and lots of ugly navy blue and whte canvas deck shoes with double elasticated gussets. They were very cheap (about £8 for the adult ones) and so did next to mothing to contribute to our fiercely driven system of individual sales targets.
They were also naff. Even as a fifteen year old, I knew they were naff.
And possibly the least flattering footwear a woman could ever wear.
we sold lots and lots of ugly navy blue and whte canvas deck shoes with double elasticated gussets. They were very cheap (about £8 for the adult ones) and so did next to mothing to contribute to our fiercely driven system of individual sales targets.
They were also naff. Even as a fifteen year old, I knew they were naff.
And possibly the least flattering footwear a woman could ever wear.
yeah the navy ones are ugly. although i did have a pair when i was about 12. except - i've just remembered - they were black. not navy. which means i didn't have the ones that spanglechick is on about. in fact most of them are ugly. but so what? not everything has to be gorgeous. ugly and stupid can be good 
"gusset"
"gusset"
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
oh god - yes, i forgot they came in black.milesy said:yeah the navy ones are ugly. although i did have a pair when i was about 12. except - i've just remembered - they were black. not navy. which means i didn't have the ones that spanglechick is on about. in fact most of them are ugly. but so what? not everything has to be gorgeous. ugly and stupid can be good
"gusset"
your options: black canvas with white trim
white canvas with navy trim
navy canvas with white trim
navy slightly puffy fabric with white trim
white slightly puffy fabric with navy trim (these were slicker and more expensive).
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I like them. Underground Shoes did a similar thing that had leopard print instead of the checkerboard pattern, and they were completly animal free, and made in the UK! The wet dream of ethical shoe buying But I can't find them on their website anymore 
But I can't find them on their website anymore 
Skim
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spanglechick said:
Sounds kinda comfy
Then again, I am reaching sensible footwear age. A Scholl catalogue arrived mysteriously in the post yesterday, addressed to me but using my never-used married surname. I think my mum's put me on their mailing list. It'll be Ecco gift vouchers next. Or elasticated gussets
I saw Milesy on the bus this morning wearing those shoes. I regret to say that I didn't say hello.
Frankly it was a little embarrassing. He was sat next to a small man wearing a gold-buttoned blazer, a salmon pink shirt and some deck shoes. Milesy was also casting envious eyes at the emo kids behind him, who wouldn't let him, even with his new shoes, join their whingeing selves on the back seat. I think I saw an outstretched palm raised and the word 'grandad' uttered.
He's trapped in a hellish halfway house now that Milesy. I felt for him.
Frankly it was a little embarrassing. He was sat next to a small man wearing a gold-buttoned blazer, a salmon pink shirt and some deck shoes. Milesy was also casting envious eyes at the emo kids behind him, who wouldn't let him, even with his new shoes, join their whingeing selves on the back seat. I think I saw an outstretched palm raised and the word 'grandad' uttered.
He's trapped in a hellish halfway house now that Milesy. I felt for him.
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