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@okimoto Top job there. How was it? Looking forward to the fit pics from the lucky recipients!! I hear the costs were quite tasty.

Warm day / Ooe x Bandanna Almanac / Warehouse / @Duke Mantee / Buckweat

I'm tapping my toes waiting!!

Indeed @Dr_Heech... she was dope!!

Post O'alls / Ooe (on the post, ironically) / Belafonte x 2 / @Duke Mantee / Brother Bridge... last week but sshhh don't tell anyone...

Took the WoMs for a walk in nearby Gledhow Valley Woods, a coffee in Chapel Allerton and back again, with my lad Glorious day - blue sky with a nice chill in the air Baby fade coming on... 50s vibes... WoM 5150 / Rototo / Freewheelers special heavyweight sweatshirt / Samurai 21oz 552XX / Converse MiJ from Gee

Have you been posting them in this thread erroneously then? Time to confess and come clean. The Mods may need to do a clean up 😉

Only 218g (size 9) for all that cushion and spring too... the lad's spikes are a piffling 125g (size 7.5) but he said springy as anything on a tartan track... modern tech ftw!

... depending on Gee's answer we may need a 'The sneakers we DON'T wear with our jeans' thread...

Nike Air Zoom Victory spikes with carbon fibre plate in action... with a win today at the lad's season opener 👍

Nice them... what size??? 😉

Yeah - I got a pair from Naoki that arrived at the start of the week. The Okinawa denim was calling me after I reacquainted myself with my MF Ranch Blouse but, after taking a closer look, plumped for the Hawaii for a change and out of curiosity. What great denim. So nice. I was a bit hasty and forgot to get them hemmed so it's heavy double cuffing until I do. I know what you'll say... yes the denim rail is coming under a lot of stress lately... but I am otherwise pretty low-cost 😁

@yung_flynn similarly lost track but these caught my eye and glad they did... there's a crossover place in the wide jeans thread for them too... the thigh measured at crotch comes in at 37cm for a w36... compared to SCSC '43s (w34 with similar actual waist) which are 35cm, as are SC Hawaii... so definitely voluminous for anyone considering them

This got me thinking back though there is always a risk given the huge time-span that I conflate years. Like Maynard, school years were predominantly Adidas - Adidas shoes (Corsica, Dakar), Samba, Bamba etc - and many hours were spent in Liverpool at Wade Smiths lusting after rare af German Adidas imports (think we discussed this a few years back). Though I fondly recall getting a pair of Hi-Tek Silver Shadow, which doubled up for running and knocking around it. I remember bouncing out of the shop in them (yep wore them straight off the bat) like they were the best thing ever with the comfort making up for the fact they weren't the coolest pair... yet. We had a 200m cinder/gravel athletics track at school... I'm pretty sure I was wearing the Hi-Tek when I broke the 400m school record... not intending for gratuitous self PR here... I mention it because my lad and I were comparing times at similar age... and I had to make the point that he's wearing carbon fibre spikes weighing 125g per shoe on a modern 400m track, whereas I was skidding around corners on gravel in my 1.25kg shoes (ok slightly exaggerated but you get the point). The only Nike I had in my yoof were spikes. Given the advances in running shoes and running tracks, it makes World Records like David Rudisha's 800m in 1.40.91 from 2012 and Seb Coe's UK record of 1.41.73 from 1981 (44 years ago) all that more remarkable. I love the Nike Waffles from OO but they wouldn't cut it for serious athletes these days given the advances in technology. Very nice for 'feet-up Fridays' though!!

This is only my second pair. The first were 710s which I wore quite a bit years ago and still have but they're too small, which reminds me I need to shift them. Both really robustly put together, no issues. Small sample I know so not much to infer from this!!