They say that you should spend good money on what separates your feet from the ground. This is usually my mental justification when I want to purchase a new pair of shoes that I 'need'. But allow me to be more precise; I'm currently trying to justify buying a pair of trainers that everyone that I've shown dislikes. Being more specific again it's the Garbstore x Reebok Instapump Fury's that have whet my appetite so. I showed my fellow blogger and general dapper man about town Mr Arjun Sohal and he told me that he wasn't feeling it. I showed someone else thinking that maybe Arjun was a one off (Arjun is a one off). You know, just not quite to his taste or something like that but the other person that I showed liked them less and was less polite.
Now, I'm not just fiending a new pair of trainers for no reason, I want a new pair of trainers because some shyster stole my orange leopard Roshe runs from outside my apartment at Unknown Festival. Fuck you whoever took them. I loved those trainers because they were lairy and totally over the top and if I had pretensions I'd say that they were avant garde. I like avant garde lairy trainers. There's something about them that appeal to me deep inside, the loudness and the shameless attention grabbing are what scratch my itch, float my boat and make the world go round.
Similarly I own a pair of Gourmet Dignans and people ask me what I'm wearing, not to see where they come from but because they don't know what the fuck are on my feet. I have a pair of ninja slippers that provoke the same reaction. So for me it's all about the weird shit that gets you thinking. The Reebok instapump has always been on my list of things to buy in some guise since I saw a pair appear on hypebeast one day. Mind = blown. I literally didn't know anything could look like that at that point in my young adolescent life. There is also the little matter of a certain Chanel collaboration.
The other shoe that I lust after currently is the Nike Foamposite in all black. That's right. Murdered out Foamposites are what I'd like to own for all of the above reasons. Garish, over the top and slightly ridiculous looking and I like that. They kind of look like futuristic tanks for your feet except with less actual firepower and more metaphorical firepower and they're stealthy looking, like they could sneak up on you, take your sweets out of your pocket and run off without you ever knowing. Are they my three favourite trainers ever these avant garde musketeers? Not quite but they're up there and I definitely fucks with them all day.
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