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How
yall feel about this🎾 OFFICIAL AGASSI RETRO THREAD 🎾
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How
yall feel about this
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I feel like proofreading is a lost art.
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I think I've just come to this realization... Wish it would've happened before I copped racers pinks from FNL
Still dope that they retrod an OG female colorway, but I think I'm just gonna return them and pony up my money for the lavas
- May 15, 2003
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Trying to resist just buying. Especially now that a lot of my kicks 10+ years old are starting to crumble or separate.
- Mar 29, 2001
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How
Bro a clown and this is a bunch of ignorance.
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In my opinion for most of the inner cities kids coming up in the 1990-2010’s this is true. Those boutiques, and small sports stores loved to see them coming
How
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True, and you need to move that timeline back to the 80's.
Jim is partly correct. There's so many stories of people wanting to be fly JUST because of hustlers they saw and looked up to.
This envy IN ADDITION TO OTHER THINGS (ie: sports) absolutely made sneakers highly desirable.
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To say the whole sneaker culture came from seeing them on drug dealers sounds dumb.
Maybe in some neighborhoods perhaps, but the whole world? Foh
Maybe in some neighborhoods perhaps, but the whole world? Foh
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But the whole world wasn't into sneakers and definitely was started in the Black neighborhoods plus rappers got their influence from the hustlers. Rappers on TV spreading that influence of street wear to the world
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Alternate facts.
Nobody I came up with wanted to be fly because of some drug dealers. Sounds crazy.
Sure, that may have been the case with some cats and some neighborhoods, but don’t put that on the whole world.
Nobody I came up with wanted to be fly because of some drug dealers. Sounds crazy.
Sure, that may have been the case with some cats and some neighborhoods, but don’t put that on the whole world.
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Definitely not but the influence is their
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Perhaps, but he said it STARTED with drug dealers and that’s just plain ignorance
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Not arguing against, just curious as to where you believe it started?
Sports/athletes are the obvious alternative answer but perhaps they coincided to create all of this.
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Both FTL and FNL have 45-day return policies. Pair from FTL has already been shipped. I could get another pair and save $10 with the FNL code and return the FTL pair. I could then wait if racer pinks go on a deeper discount within 45 days and return the FNL pair.
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It started from cats wanting to be the flyest, attached to who was the flyest athletes with the flyest shoes out.
From Mike, to Deion, to Bo, etc.
From the clothes to the cars to the shoes.
But once Jordan took off, I think that had way more credence than some drug dealers.
From Mike, to Deion, to Bo, etc.
From the clothes to the cars to the shoes.
But once Jordan took off, I think that had way more credence than some drug dealers.
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This right here!! I remember picking up the Slam Magazines, Eastbay Mags, and just playing sports got me in the game too, but seeing the gear and shoes in the streets peaked my interest at first
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Yeah we're not talking about individual experiences here....which you're stating. We're talking about the thing as a whole and its genesis.
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So you rather speak on what u heard another cat say, rather than what u lived/seen yourself?
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It started even before athletes were tied to shoes though. During the birth of Hip Hop with Puma suedes, Cazal glasses, Lees, etc.
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I’m talkin mid 80s and up, what I came up in
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I know what inspired ME personally....but that's not what this topic is about.
The convo is about the beginning of sneaker culture when most of us here were babies or not even born yet.
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Again, everyone and their mother has their own inspiration, but the Jim convo is about the culture as a WHOLE.
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Everyone’s experience, or introduction to sneakers is different. We can only pinpoint when it started for ourselves. Hard to pinpoint the moment everyone went “yeah, this what’s hot, this what we rockin”.
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In the 80's it came from drug dealers. Basketball players and hip hop were influenced by drug dealers.
Drug dealers were the flyest, because they could afford it. It trickled down.
That's why in baltimore they call foams...
What did LL and Run DMC dress like?
Allen Iverson dressed like?
Who did John Thompson want Alonzo to stop hanging around?
Not everyone is from a New York, DC, Atlanta, Philly to realize it
Drug dealers were the flyest, because they could afford it. It trickled down.
That's why in baltimore they call foams...
What did LL and Run DMC dress like?
Allen Iverson dressed like?
Who did John Thompson want Alonzo to stop hanging around?
Not everyone is from a New York, DC, Atlanta, Philly to realize it
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So the era before shoes took off forreal, you describe as the beginning of sneaker culture?
