I’m not encouraging violence or anything but… if I saw someone who was getting jumped wearing these, I’d pretend I didn’t notice.
Does laughing count as encouraging?
Someone told me on another thread that I was bad for judging anyone who would wear $400 shiny gold shoes.
And yet, I still judge anyone who would wear $400 shiny gold shoes.
You are bad for judging people based on their choice of clothes …
But not as bad as someone who wears $400 shiny gold shoes! Heyo
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I mean, the gold looks like it was spray painted on.
It will start to crack when drying after it encounters the first bit of rain.
Why wouldn’t they be manufactured as cheaply as possible? The entire point is the grift.
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I just buy Skechers and wear them until they disintegrate, so I dunno. Extra points for alliteration
I second Sketchers, hard to find wide shoes that fit to begin with.
Skechers are so damn comfortable and they last.
My first pleather shoes were skechers and they died after 3 months, sadly. :’(
Bah that sucks!
I second alliteration
Alliteration’s always adored
Astounding
I’ve been wearing Skechers for a good 20 years now. I buy a new pair maybe every 3 years and they’re cheap, so that’s fine.
What’s your preferred style and budget?
Casual sneakers or ankle-high boots made of brown pleather or a comfortably pliable leather that can go with a variety of outfits. Not those specifically, it’s just immensely difficult to find pics online these days. I’d go up to 150 for shoes that I can actually wear for a few years. Any tips on seeing material defects would be immensely helpful after an unexaggerated decade of short-lived shoes I’m too stubborn to let die.
Rose Anvil on YouTube does tear-downs of boots to show what brands have quality materials and good support versus what are just garbage. Recommend looking though his videos.
I’ve started checking them out. It’s a neat premise, cutting the shoes apart. Thank you!
I really hate shoes with pointy ends. It squeezes your big toe out of shape and can give you bunions.
Pleather is a terrible material in basically every way possible
I’ve had pleather survive 10+ years in other use cases. It can be hardy and host a decent veneer, albeit rarely.
Trump taunting aside, Merrell brand boots and shoes are the best. Long wearing and comfortable.
It does not matter. It’s a way for people to mass purchase these and allow them to circumvent campaign contribution limitations.
Just buy 20 containers for resale and then let them rot in a warehouse while trump sells more to his MAGAts.
Yep, it’s the old book deal con except with shoes. Either the Russians or the American idiot class, or both.
He’s selling his stupid xshitter clone for nearly 10 billion and he has a 50ish percent stake. That’s the real grift here. No one in their right mind would pay 10 billion for that platform. It’s got fewer than one million active users and the rest are bots. THAT is the bribe.
Seriously though let’s forget for a second who’s hawking these shoes, the sneakers are sooooo ugly by themselves. No sense of style, aesthetics, or design. Who is going to wear these and not feel like a goober?
I kinda feel that way about a lot of niche sneakers tbh…
It’s an easy way to identify the lower IQ/more gullible GOP members. (Quark would love and exploit this feature [RoA#74: Knowledge equals profit])
Low IQ GOP members is a redundancy - unless you’re an uber-wealthy direct beneficiary of their grifts.
FSB just put in an order for $380m of them
Same people that vote for Trump without feeling like a goober, I’d imagine.
Let’s not forget how popular Kanye “I loooooooove Hitlerrrrrr” West’s shoes continue to be - and most of them look like the product of a 3-way between nanna’s teach cosy, a Tesla, and an inflatable life raft.
Yeezy shoes continue to make profit for Adidas because they’re produced cheap enough, but that’s not the same as Yeezy being popular anymore. Data: https://legitcheck.app/stats/yeezy/
They’re certainly less popular, but are holding on to meaningful market share.
Do you have other data? Adidas does 13B business but the Yeezy sneakers contribute to 0.038% of that.
Data: https://www.statista.com/chart/13470/athletic-footwear-sales/
The last link you shared showed 3% market share, and revenue dropping from 1.3-1.7bn to 568m in 2023.
Adidas are far more than just shoes - looking at a “premium” partnership with a musician on sub-brand for one of many categories they’re present in isn’t a super-representative snapshot.
The 13B is just for sneaker sales but I see your point about the market share
MBS can order a million of these and not violate campaign finance laws.
At least it has the correct number of stars for the number of states where he’s going to win the popular vote in after being a convicted traitor.
Cool, I know exactly which shoes to spit on now
The stitching on those look amateur as fuck. The uneven stitch line on the soles is garbage. These are likely Walmart quality shoes with his name stamped on
I’ve been waiting for someone who actually knows about sneakers to tell us the quality of these shoes. It’s what I thought, but I’m glad to have it confirmed. Thank you.
I don’t know that anyone expected anything different.
These are made in China most likely, correct?
The only thing more American than “Made in the USA” is “Made in China” lol
Maybe China, I think more likely is Indonesia or Cambodia. This is absolute bottom-tier product
They sold out in the first hour
To the RNC most likely
My guess is on the Russians doing a fair bit of money laundering
There’s a lot of magats on TikTok extolling them like they’re the greatest trainers ever produced
Or Trump at least made it seem like they sold out.
The first 20 or so may just be sold to his associates just so he could claim they were selling like hotcakes.
He could spray paint a bottle gold, fill it with piss and they’d buy it.
Who. Russia?
I would rather shit in a sock, put my foot in it, let it harden, and use that as a shoe than wear that ridiculous pile of piss-like footwear.
These look like a spray painted prop from a really bad B-version of the Wizard Of Oz.
Trump thinks gold is classy but he has the shittest taste ever.His taste is pretty much anything an 8 year old thinks a rich guy would have.
In case anyone didn’t know.
Gold is tacky as fuck … Especially anything that isn’t classy jewelry or a watch. Even in those cases it can look extremely dated.
Your gold xxxx makes you look trailer fab.
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