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awesome.
i will wear these with my CCS x Thrasher jeans and my fourstar x Thrasher tee....
yikes.
Gerwer's nose- what people like so much are the fact that they are converse. Kids today have become whores to large corporations that get involved in skating. Its fucking pathetic.
You've read the back cover synopsis of
No Logo and now think you're Che Guevara. Non skate brands wouldn't have any sort of foothold in the market unless either they were doing something right, or their competition was doing something wrong. I would argue that Nike were able to overcome massive hurdles in the skate market simply because they offered better product*. It is hard for me to feel sorry for 'legit' skate shoe companies when they do such stupid things. DC have been making money hand over fist for ten years now, and they don't seem to have invested any of it back into market research or product development. Instead we get bloated photo shoots of Drydek in an anti gravity chamber. Sole Tech blew it big time 3 years ago after hubris got the better of them, and there has been little effort to rebuild. Etnies is a complete write off, and there is a new generation who won't touch éS.
Although not a skate shoe company, Vans have really fucked up with the new triangle sole/flimsy suede skate line. And you also have to take into account that even when there was no money flying around people still wore shit like Airwalk and Osiris.
Give a highschool drop-out money and they'll immediately spend it on booze, drugs and expensive cars in a vulgar display of Nouveau riche tastelessness.
*not counting the SB 'collectors market' - which only really got going around 2005 - but when you think about it that is such a clever marketing move
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