since we are all serious skate shoe addicts on here i thought i would get this thread started.
there have been so many great skate shoes released over the years that seem to get forgotten in one or two seasons; so painful especially when you find the perfect shoe. anyways, here's my list;
* a pair of zero-twos - i don't think this will ever happen but i loved the hype and advertising campaign when this brand first came out. their team was dope too!
* (canvas) sheep merinos - i missed the boat on these (twice actually with the reissues) and now i wish i really didn't
* emerica ed templeton 1s - i can't believe to this day that emerica won't reissue this one (imo it's was/is on par with the marc johnson's first model). there was sooo many people rocking this shoe at the time of their release; arto basically lived in them.
* etnies vallely 1 - what a beast of a shoe it was. i literally cannot stand a word that comes out of mike's mouth these days but there is a soft spot in my heart for this particular model. tech as fuck and built like a tank!
* vans rowley XLT1 and the shams model - the XLT reminded me of some old-skool reeboks and the shams were basically a bulletproof half cab with a cupsole. saw some XLTs on ebay the other day but it seems like every man and his dog were bidding on them (which just proves how popular they were). bastien and ali rocked them a lot though i don't think they were fully appreciated at the time
(^^^ i had this colourway)
* dukes (first shoe they put out?) - super clean design and you couldn't fuck with jeremy wray at the time (still can't). i had a pair back in the day and loved them. quality was topnotch too!
* kastel - ronnie bertino's first shoe? kastel as a brand aged really badly but their first run of kicks was pretty tight at the time
(couldn't find a good pic)
* emerica phocus - i only found this out recently but apparently this was going to be JT's 2nd shoe after his "i'm going to skate barefoot until you make me a canvas shoe" model. jamie left emerica shortly before it was released (see page 3 of this thread for his first adio shoe which was actually based off of the phocus) but emerica released it anyway sans his name. i had just become a vegetarian at the time and was obsessed with cruelty-free shoes (still am), but most of all i just thought it was a really clean looking shoe. will still skate these in a heartbeat <3
(will probably edit as some more come to mind)
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the other reason why i'm starting this topic is that recently i've basically found a treasure trove of dead stock skate shoes (think mid 00's) that i'm thinking of investing in. obviously i'm not going to take the plunge unless i'm going to get some sort of return on this investment so i'm interested in what you guys/ gals would be into. some of this stuff is super hard to get so naturally i won't be able to fulfill all of your wishes but it looks like i'll have a nice haul coming in the coming weeks/ months. as a teaser this will be the first pair going up for sale:
staple OG (in lakers colourway) which came out as a limted colab with mita sneakers in japan
probably have some gravis, e's square twos, vans stage 4s, emerica (herman 1/ g-code, templeton transist, reynolds 3 etc.) quite soon...