Now that we are back and traveling is over, and I am knee deep in my job search.. I need something to distract me from the terror of going back to work.. and somehow that thing is.. sneakers… I have always loved sneakers but lately it is all I think about… very odd.. once baseball season starts…hopefully I will be less obsessed with sneakers.. but for now.. I have turned into a sneakerhead….and I feel the need to post some pics of my current sneakers…
Adidas ZXZ ADV’s…circa 2002….This was the first pair of sneakers I bought that I didn’t wear… I saw an episode of Cribs with Missy Elliot and she wore a pair of sneakers sorta like these and I have lusted after them since…. this is the pair that started it all.. I bought them… and then just could never bring myself to wear them and just put them on my dresser… this was about 5 years ago
These I picked up in Shanghai… Adidas and Toy2R.. toys and sneakers… super sweet, these will never get worn.. but the shop in Shanghai did rip me off.. they didn’t give me the figure that comes with it.. but I did get the three extra pairs of laces
Blue and orange Adidas Marathoner…..also never worn… the soles are little Adidas logos…
Adidas Superstars…picked up in Japan at a Navy base exchange.. cool Halloween print on the soles.. great buy at $40
Adidas Comptowns…picked up these sweet ones here in NY on Prince St.. brown is the new black…. or so the wife says as she watches the Oscars
Another colorway of the Missy inspired ZXZ ADV shoes that I do wear, I think I actually have grown out of these…
My only pair of Pumas, TX-3′s… cirrca 2004.. the wife actually has the same pair and refuses to wear them when I wear them
I got these in Taiwan.. people either love these or hate these
My only pair of NB mids
Air Paracuso.. wore these on my honeymoon
Nike Air Vandal Black Fives edition, also picked up at the Navy Exchange in Yokosuka, the velcro is sweet.
Yesterday I dragged the wife down to the LES to check out a store called Reed Space. Very cool shop, the owner is a guy named Jeff Ng, aka Jeff Staple and his designs are too cool for school. He is also the guy that caused a small riot a few years back when he released a sneaker with a pigeon on the heel (I got the knock offs). Those sneakers now sell for over 2 grand. Sheeesh.
I guess most guys at some point in their lives were obsessed with sneakers, I remember dragging my parents to Roosevelt Field Raceway flea markets on Saturdays looking for that pair of Nike Delta Force high tops and cleaning them every day after school with a tooth brush and filling in the white NIKE on the back with white out. I guess I never really stopped, whenever we go to the outlet malls up in Woodbury, the only places I ever go to are the Nike store and the Adidas store. I wonder if I ever will grow up.
