I used to go to Active before I moved to San Francisco. I still go back there when I go home just to look around at the clothes. It's the most convenient shop near my house unless I want to go to Zumiez. I buy some stuff there but not too often because they raised the fuck out of their prices a year or two ago. I remember when a regular skate T was like 15. Now they are all at least 20. I like their decks, though. If I go through mail order, I never buy from there and try to support smaller shops and what not.
If skateboarding wants to support smaller shops what they need to figure out a way to cut wholesale prices for smaller businesses, so the business can offer lower prices to the consumer. It's hard to compete with the internet and mailorder because a lot of times the prices are a lot better and their is a ton of clearance or sales. On the flip side of that, shops need to get a mailorder system going if they want to survive. It might sound like bullshit to most people but this is kind of where the future is. There are a ton of people who shop online for soft good exclusively and this is where a lot of the money rolls in for skateshops.
I don't know. I'm drunk.
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i nearly threw up once when i saw a hypebeast wearing emerica hsus (the enjoi collab colorway)
am i the only one that sees people wearing skate shoes and glances to see if they've been skated at all?
yeah i saw a hype beast wearing an emerica sweatshirt once, and the other day i went into the ghetto corner store down the street from my house and some dude in jordans asked me what shoes i was wearing (reynolds 3s) and told me they were tight. i've seen a few dudes wearing the fallen chukka lows too. non-vans/sb skate shoes are getting popular with the non-skate crowds recently.
Oh I definitely do that too. Sometimes I even get slightly embarrassed wearing new shoes. I notice some dude checking them out for wear and I'm thinking "Shiiiit...he definitely thinks I don't skate."
imagine being the only skateboarder at your university and looking at everyone's skate shoes, not to find a single worn-down toe. that's me. i represent the only blown out skateboard shoes on campus
That's regular. I don't know about the majority of people but I used to have a pair of shoes I skated and then a pair of shoes I didn't skate until I got a new pair of shoes. So, I'd never wear fucked up shoes to school unless I skate there that day. Now that I'm older and hardly skate, my "good" shoes outnumber my messed up ones but I still always have a skate shoe ready to go. So unless you see someone riding a skateboard down the street with perfectly new shoes and unscratched deck, you can't really tell if the dude skates or not.