Adidas Trainers

[The Midnight Rambler]

Scotts have 20% off all trabs this weekend, if you wanna buy yourself a Crimbo pressie

[DJ Bladdered]

I'm one of those mad collectors of the mighty 3 stripes. I've got about 70 pairs. Me mates got a couple of hundred I reckon. Now he IS off his head lol. You won't see him on here though he is a blue.

 

Started with Kick late 70's, then Mamba, Bamba, Samba. Who remembers Ringo? No, not the Beatle - trainees you could only get in the catalogue. Part of that 'black with white stripe' gang. My fate was sealed, but who was to know?

 

Wade Smith arrived, and then around 82/83 they started selling decent ones in Top Shop - bought a pair of Trimm Trab (or was it Munchen?) from there. Forest Hills - white with gold stripes from one of the scally shops in the precinct, along with a Kappa jumper. Paper thin, v. disappointed (the jumper, not the trainees, or 'trabs' as they are referred to on various sites). 

 

Always loved adidas due to that early bonding, and with eBay it all fucking went off, and I became....ADDICTED. It went from a pair a month to a 7 a day habit (slight exaggeration department), sweating over high bids, getting outbid (the FUCKERS!!!), proper snide eBay sniping.....then Facebook groups, people posting pictures of vintage trainees (labelled 'adiporn'), daft prices, JUST...ONE...MORE.....PAIR......my habit has cost me THE LOT. My job, both wives, my haircut, my sanity.....I now live in a little house made of adidas boxes in the corner of the park by the duck pond, I spend my days caressing my 'city series' collection while begging for food, change and original laces. 
 
Take heed of my story. And don't buy the ones made in Vietnam, they are made from inferior (`TO BE CONTINUED)

[ZonkoVille77]

Brilliant

[Mook]

Loads of good deals on the Adidas website at the moment, 30, 40 & 50% of rakes of the trainers.

 

Dragons are £33.

[Jairzinho]

Fuck sake.

[ZonkoVille77]

Wish you hadn't told me that Mook. There's about 5 pairs on there that are 40-50% off that I'd like. I'm not going to be a dumb bastard for once.

[Mook]

They don't have the pair that I want in my size which is just as well as I've got a 6 week pay month and my first mortgage payment is a fucking Nazi.

[thegreatelephant]

want them Kirkdales but they are still full whack 95 quid- unless anyone knows somewhere else? although paid through the nail for the NY Carlos ones. limit myself to a couple a year now.

[dickie mint]

want them Kirkdales but they are still full whack 95 quid- unless anyone knows somewhere else? although paid through the nail for the NY Carlos ones. limit myself to a couple a year now.

Adidas Bootle will be next on the agender.

[Ted]

Dunno if it's been mentioned as I haven't read the whole thread but Transalpino in town is a fucking great shop for Adidas lovers.

 

Loads of deadstock in there. Their jumpers and t-shirts are also class.

[thegreatelephant]

Adidas Bootle will be next on the agender.

as i lived there for 2 years in the early '90s, thought I would commemorate that glorious time. student flat block now being used by dr greenthumb so i heard

[aRdja]

Nikes are better

[Tony Moanero]

Nikes are better

Nine make some excellent trainees, but I wouldn't say they're better than Adidas, just different.

 

Cortez and Terra TC are boss, but so are Stan Smith, Trimm Trab and Gazelle.

[The Midnight Rambler]

want them Kirkdales but they are still full whack 95 quid- unless anyone knows somewhere else? although paid through the nail for the NY Carlos ones. limit myself to a couple a year now.

£60 here

 

http://www.footpatrol.co.uk/footwear/178892-kirkdale-spzl.html

[RedKnight]

Bought a new pair of Cortez last week. A comfier pair of trainees you will not find anywhere. Love me Originals and Nike.

[aRdja]

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[aRdja]

Nine make some excellent trainees, but I wouldn't say they're better than Adidas, just different.

 

Cortez and Terra TC are boss, but so are Stan Smith, Trimm Trab and Gazelle.

Nike internationalist is very cool. I'm umming and ahhing about these two:

 

https://www.mrporter.com/mens/nike/internationalist-canvas-mesh-and-nubuck-sneakers/615117?ppv=2

 

https://www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/nike/internationalist-lx-nubuck-sneakers/615128?ppv=2

[skend04]

Nike internationalist is very cool. Umming and ahhing about these two:

 

https://www.mrporter.com/mens/nike/internationalist-canvas-mesh-and-nubuck-sneakers/615117?ppv=2

 

https://www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/nike/internationalist-lx-nubuck-sneakers/615128?ppv=2

For a minute there I thought I had just woken up somehow in the 1980s.

[aRdja]

For a minute there I thought I had just woken up somehow in the 1980s.

No likey?

[Mook]

Nike stuff is shit, it's like posting about Heart on the Led Zeppelin thread.

 

I wouldn't let my cat wear Nikes out the house.

[Tossed and blown]

Scorpion Shoes has a sale that ends today, 25% off including the sale prices plus free postage.  Got a few pairs including black suede indoor gazelles for a little over thirty quid!

[Vincent Vega]

Nike internationalist is very cool. I'm umming and ahhing about these two:

 

https://www.mrporter.com/mens/nike/internationalist-canvas-mesh-and-nubuck-sneakers/615117?ppv=2

 

https://www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/nike/internationalist-lx-nubuck-sneakers/615128?ppv=2

I used to have a pair of them in blue with a yellow swoosh, boss they were.

[Carvalho Diablo]

I think Nike gear is the absolute height of naff.

[thegreatelephant]

£60 here

 

http://www.footpatrol.co.uk/footwear/178892-kirkdale-spzl.html

sound. bagged. i'm a half size mong but i'll squeeze into an 8, 9 and above like boats on me.

[aRdja]

I think Nike gear is the absolute height of naff.

I think Nike is less chavvy than Adidas.