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07 September 2006

I am Coveting Shoes. I really, really, really want some Starbury Cyclones.
I'd settle for the days when a pair of black Chuck's would run me $15.
posted by tr33hggr 07 September | 09:00
I was worried this was going to be some kind of fetish thread.
posted by jonmc 07 September | 09:24
Holy Shit, Chuck Taylor's are 42 bucks? I remember when you could only get those at the dregs deparment stores like Val or 3D.
posted by sciurus 07 September | 09:30
are they canvas/non-leather? i'll buy a pair stat! but where? the starbury link gives me a blank page.

Holy Shit, Chuck Taylor's are 42 bucks?

Holy Shit Indeed! i didn't realize, prob'ly 'cuz i haven't bought them since Nike bought Converse. Black Spot or No-Sweat are good alternatives, or these last forever (and come in green too.)
posted by shane 07 September | 10:06
Holy Shit, Chuck Taylor's are 42 bucks?


That asshole has to pay his legal bills somehow.
posted by pieisexactlythree 07 September | 11:48
Via popbitch:

Kids only want to buy trainers if they are super-expensive and exclusive, and top sportsmen can't be blamed for endorsing top-priced goods. Well, this conventional wisdom is being turned on its head by New York Knicks' Stephon Marbury. Kobe, Lebron and Michael Jordan have all put their name to $150 Nike shoes, but Marbury has made it his mission to bring out a line of shoes for poor kids. The cost of the new Starbury shoe? $15. And it's not just a piece of tat. Marbury is wearing the shoe on court himself.

Sold only in US discount store Steve & Barry's (which prides itself on enabling a family to be clothed for a year for $100) the shoe has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Queues run outside the stores, with a two-item per person limit now enforced on the Starbury range. Marbury's aim is to show people just how little it really costs to make high quality sneakers. "Two hundred to buy a pair of sneakers? That's groceries for the week," he says. "History is going to say Stephon Marbury changed the game."


I'd love some of these, they look great.
posted by essexjan 07 September | 12:31
Has anyone heard from arse_hat? || The Wreck of the Thread of jamjammo

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