In the early part of 2k9, I will probably spend a lot of time ’searching 4 trends that r representative of the next big thing’ in ‘the world of fashion.’ Sometimes trends go away, then come back. I think 2k9/2k10/2k11 will be all about recycling old name brands + personal branding items.
[via lookbook]
The indoor soccer shoe is a relevant choice for bros who want to look like a humble alt (think they are better than bright, bulky Nikes), and still have an attachment to their mildly athletic past. They usually have a set of parents with mainstream doctrines, and the choice of indoor soccer shoes doesn’t alienate their parents’ image of their son like a progressive shoe would.
Indoor soccer shoes are for bros with a lifestyle that sees them float in between multiple contexts: mainstream and alt. The indoor soccer shoe gives them versatility in function and image.
Never trust a bro over the age of 20 who still wears indoor soccer shoes. He is not sure who he wants to be. Or he has a membership at one of the world’s only remaining indoor soccer facilities.
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Gimmicks that might big in 2k10
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Ying Yang choker necklaces
Necklaces that prove you recently ‘went to the beach’ on a family vacation and ‘got to take a friend’
Old brands before ‘alt’ became ‘a lil more self-aware’ (remember when alternative clothing only came in black, white & red ? ///// this is why mallrat-based alts are usually in only these colours)
Looking like Brandon Boyd
I think we are headed back 2 more simplistic free-spiritedness. Kind of like the zeitgeist of a 12 year old bro who ‘just discovered what marijuana tastez like’ and is about to ’see his GPA slip @ high school’, and will enjoy becoming a justified ‘chilled out bro in the world’ who transcends his parents’ rules.
Still trying 2 find myself in 2k9…. I guess some things never change, yall.
Previous shoe coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/08/which-shoe-company-represents-u.html
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if yall start looking like brandon boyd i won’t be complaining.
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The good thing about indoor soccer shoes (much like keds) is that they are sold for 7 dollars at every thrift store/consignment shop/salvation army/buffalo xchange (although not that overpriced shithole beacon’s closet) and in 2k9 Alts everywhere, due to their alternative career paths [via unemployment] must based their personal brand around what alternative item is most available at “half price.”
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@Mandy, haha except i’m in college…
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//////////Reply by Mandy
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@Patrick McCue,
being in college is kinda like unemployment.you’re not actively making enough money to survive. so it’s a kind of funemployment if you will.
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//////////Reply by brian
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
@Mandy,
Compare Keds to Adidas one more time and I’ll rip your intestines out. srsly
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//////////Reply by Mandy
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
@brian,
same shit
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
@Mandy, haha, her parents must buy her all her clothes and shoes.
take one stop on the L from BK to the city, right after Lorimer, and it’s like full soccer team’s flooded in, commuting with you all of a sudden. It’s astounding. Said soccer team, then floods out through the much populated 14 Street/Union Square stop, leaving you with the mindset of a rape victim.
All you wanted to be was ‘different’, by opting for the simple, totally non-ironic yet ironic adi dassler shoe, in a poor way, ‘ you know’; now you’re just part of the gimmick.
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//////////Reply by M39
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
@adhd, seems you’re a little confused about your L train stops, my friend
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I’m hoping me receiving a tug job for the topless am appy model is a trend in 2k9.
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god i h8 sambas so much right now
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i bet youre right on everything except the yin yang necklace carles
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THE FUNNY THING IS THAT MOSSIMO IS NOW THE TARGET BRAND AND I SHOP AT TARGET ALL THE TIME.
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//////////Reply by naNa
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@peter, me too. <3 mossimo via target
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//////////Reply by peter
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 2:18 am
AND THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I WANTED TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE BRANDON BOYD
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I thought this look would die and stay dead. Guess I was wrong.
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that’s such bullshit! i wear soccer shoes and this better not be a trend. I ACTUALLY play soccer!
i’m 18 so i guess it works out.
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
hey i’m the kid in the photo and i have played soccer since i was 7 years old. club, premier, highschool, indoor in the winter, year around.
so fuck off and don’t talk shit unless you know the person.
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in 3rd grade i wanted sambas more than anything but my parents wouldnt buy them 4 me bc they were too expensive so i had to wear white keds and every1 made fun of me bc my shoes werent cool :(
miss u mossimo SITE 4 SORE EYES tshirts. also jncos.
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that guy with the shoes is kinda hawt but ur rite carles he is way 2 mainstream for me
also miss u lady enyce
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I really hope indoor soccer shoes are not big in 2K9. they are total ghey, as in puma racing shoe ghey
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ying yang necklaces circa 1995, please take us back to a time when The Real World was authentic.
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u r the ying 2 my yang.
PLUR<3
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2k9 is going to be all about low profile pumas. Not low cost Keds.
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Self lacing shoes–Big in 1k+1k15
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who cares what shoes are big in 2k9
why bother speculating anyway…
trends/are/trends
there/will/always/be/new/trends
/ergo, trends don’t mean shit (except to the people who think they started them/morons who want to be a part of “it”)
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//////////Reply by adamson
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
@*****, best comment ever. (:
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oh, this is so bittersweet! i remember my first and only pair. ’twas the year 2000, i was 17 and beginning my freshman year of college in san francisco. i found a samba coupon and went on an adventurous shopping journey through foreign & “urban” streets so unlike my soCal suburban sprawl. that night, in my new social signifiers (shoes) i took a ghetto bus to see death cab for cutie and the aislers set play amidst throngs of plaid boys with bangs.
true story. good god.
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Brandon Boyd is hot..
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i purchased a pair of 10.5 sambas three months ago, b 4 that i had a pair of novas from my dads indoor soccer days in the 90’s, does that mean im a fag?
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i thought sambas were for socal harcore kids to wear with their camo-cargo-shorts/ small black band t-shirt/ and black pullover bearing local HxCx band name or beairng some kind of slogan that tells the world about their HXCX Personal brand via phrases like “Straight Fucking Edge”/ “Straight Pride”/ or the classic:
“(?)x(?)xHxCx”
Whatevz
in 2K9 im all about these pointed toe chukka boots i found at clarks ( and other froms of low prof lace up boots). Whos with me?
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//////////Reply by mes
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 4:25 am
@Hot N’ BODY’D,
total HxC kid shoes, that’s what I was thinking. Oh well.
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I would appreciate if you took the photo of me off of here that you took from lookbook, please and thank you or ill have to report this blog for use without asking permission
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//////////Reply by HipToDeath
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
@Patrick McCue, I notice you’re from Ohio. I’m surprised you haven’t moved to Brooklyn yet like all the other Midwesterners in your age group that have similar interests as you.
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
@HipToDeath, similar interests? by looking at my clothes you know my interests? ahaha. fuck off dude.
like i said above, i’ve been playing soccer since i was 7, year around in club/premier and highschool teams.
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//////////Reply by HipToDeath
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Yea, you know. Taking pictures of yourself looking apathetic, not eating at Mcdonalds/Starbucks, riding your bicycle, being an activist, etc. I’m surprised you’re not a vegetarian/vegan.
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//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 8:41 am
@PMC: “Permission”? Lookbook at it as an “opportunity” to take your personal brand to the next level.
Pros: We get “it:” you’ve been doing it since you were 7, so it’s not a gimmick. Cons: “Trademark dilution” of your authenticity.
//Fair use = 2k8//
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 11:05 am
@[Reply], fair use = since 1995.
and hip… nahhhh i like my cheeseburgers and burritos.
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this shits so stupid, stop saying 2k9, and stop attacking people you only know via pictures, go out and do something entertaining instead of sitting on your ass all day on a fucking computer
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//////////Reply by CB
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
@Colin,
LOLZLOLZLOLZLOLZLOLZ
pretty sure this all satire kiddies. get it? a joke? calm down everybody. no one fucking cares what shoes you wear.
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//////////Reply by *****
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 12:02 am
@CB,
maybe his comment was satire too!
owait
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//////////Reply by CB
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@*****,
I can’t take it! h8 sarcasm.
haha whoever posted this is ridiculous, who would spend time blogging about what people wear… ON TOP OF THAT waste their day browsing the web to find images that fit their pointless blog. ahahah.
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lawlz
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//////////Reply by Adam s
//////////Posted January 6th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
stupid writer of this blog haha! stupid blog. get a life.
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y’all sure is posted a lot on this blog….
so this guy is basically some confederate white racist fat ass mother fucker in a trailer down south
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I only wear bulky nikes just to receive some deep social commentary on how I “just do” it.
Congratulations I forgot to laugh at your blog.
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oh man, I think the last couple of attack posts have just been from the same kid who is so not excited about having his look taken apart even though he is the one who posted it on lookbook in the first place
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@*****, actually no haha.
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why dont you go write about a trend that actually has some sort of meaning to life.
-like our crumbling country
-our jobs being lost
-like stupid bloggers who have nothing to do but find the most rediculous things to write about
LOOZERZ
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//////////Reply by *****
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 12:23 am
@tony katai,
http://how-to-spell-ridiculous.com/
eff that, if you’re really just looking for how bleak our lives are supposedly going to be thanks to assholes I’ll never meet in my lifetime, there are plenty of places to do it, don’t complain because crls is doing something different (and doing SOMETHING period)
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this blog is bleak, and accentuates how bleak society can be by having to categorize, thanks to this asshole.
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//////////Reply by *****
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 12:42 am
@Adrianna,
this blog isn’t as bleak as you think
i think crls is trying to reassure people who don’t choose to align themselves in a distinct category, while trying to get people who do to realize how silly it is
should probably take your anger to assholes who really judge a person based on arbitrary, superficial things
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//////////Reply by *****
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 12:43 am
@*****,
er that was kind of screwy but I think you get the point..
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@Patrick McCue,
I like that hoodie, who makes it?
Also whether you play soccer or not, it must be acknowledged that Sambas are becoming pretty trendy. I see bros all over the place wearing them nowadays. Kinda takes away from my authenticity even though mine are old. :””(
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 1:02 am
@brian, it’s sad though that people care what others wear… i just wear what i like. not because it’s popular or not.
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//////////Reply by brian
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 1:14 am
@Patrick McCue,
k but you might’ve missed that first question… I’m genuinely curious.
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 1:37 am
@brian, a place called BSON
does this have anything to do with the electro war?
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 8:12 am
@salt, what the fuck is that?
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dear young patrick there will be many a casuality in the electro war my best advice to you is to make sure you are
both retro and electro fitted for future conflicts one’s personal brand is of utmost import read baudrillard symbolic exchange you’ll need it see the masterpiece red dawn flee to the hills with your altbros in a sport utility vehicle of your choice stop by your local bodega and clear the shelves of what remaining sparks product there is you are going to need it – 2k9 is gonna be a bloodbath -
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//////////Reply by mes
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 4:30 am
@salt, totes agree! Hats with hoodies x soccer shoes x messenger bags = good riot gear. h8 h8trs who h8 crles
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 8:40 am
@mes, if that is all you bring to a riot… you must be a few blocks down listening to the chaos…
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted January 9th, 2009 at 8:07 am
@Patrick McCue, a riot? its more than a riot you slippery rat! Go on home now boy!
//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 8:09 am
@salt, lol red dawn…
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rocking the gazelles and lovin it
sambas are cheezy
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 8:11 am
@hmblalt
…. gazelles? ahah and you’re calling sambas cheezy? i hope your’e a girl.
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Also, I may wear Adidas Sambas…
But I’m not the one using fucking gay ass internet slang/lingo. let’s see what have I see on this thread… (2k9.. wtf really? ahah… ALTbro? first off i thought bros were the douchebags that made fun of kids that dressed like me.
h8? haha lets go “sk8″.
“LOLZLOLZLOLZLOLZLOLZ” – really? that’s cool man.
before you attack “trendy” people… quit bein fucking trendy your self.
let’s hear what you faggots wear. anything you wear i could find reasons to make fun of or consider it a negative feature.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@Patrick McCue, stop bein a h8er playa. we’re all jus tryin 2 b ourselves as altbros n trendy pply 4 the new yr of 2k9
lolz chill out bro dnt b a d-bag
asshole
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 10:35 am
@anon, haha you’re cool.
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Ok guys, the truth is…….i’m not really a guy. I was hoping that no one would really notice with my hoodie and beanie covering most of my head/face, and also with so many items/clothing on, i thought no one would see my A cup breasts. I got a little defensive/offensive about being shown on a public website, and thought that since its a picture that everyone will be looking at, someone might notice. I’m really ashamed of myself, and i don’t know who/what i am and what my meaning in life is. I just want to play soccer. For you ‘alt’ is life, for me, soccer is life. I live/breathe/dream/sleep to/cry/smile/laugh/yell/speak/hear/taste/see/AM soccer. I just want to be myself. I just want to be a boy, a boy that can be the meaning of soccer. Sometimes, i just want to fuck a soccer ball, but because i don’t want to hurt/pop/stab/lose a soccer ball, i just simply cant. Life for me is so hard. So please, don’t judge me for who i am/want to be.
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 10:34 am
@Patrick McCue, haha wow, that was a good impression of me
A+ !!!
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted January 9th, 2009 at 8:05 am
@Patrick McCue, cool! so you’ve got a split personallity too!?
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//////////Reply by lily
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 10:54 am
@Patrick McCue,
i lol’d
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 7th, 2009 at 11:03 am
@lily, i know! me too! ahaha. whoever used my name and posted that.
good job! you caught me, i have tits and a vagina. oh no.
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//////////Reply by pseudonym2
//////////Posted January 8th, 2009 at 1:48 am
@Patrick McCue,
im confussed,
cause when i red the first paragraf i hads to go 4 a 2nd look at the pic! after scrolling up and zooming in (’member kids, cmnd + scrll wheel on ur macies!) i realized how utterly attracted to the subject of the photo i was. i happen to WUV(!!) masculine-looking grls with small alt-boobies.
but then i red on further and realized that it was not a grl after all. does that make me a ghey?
2k9 is gonna be a good year for me hooking up with really, really, really goodlooking male models in indoor tennis shoes.
prolly not.
but daaaaaamn.
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Almost bought Sambas with my giftcard from Christmas cuz they were on sale at sears for 40 bucks but when i went to the store they were out of my size. Went to surf shop instead where I found comfy Nikes SWOOOOOOSH. Thanks god I didn’t get the sambas or i’d be the laughing stock at skewl.
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//////////Reply by Patrick McCue
//////////Posted January 8th, 2009 at 9:33 am
@maskedmemematt, haha you probably already are.
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my ex wears these shoes. im sending him a link to this post.
crls ‘getting’ my ex’s personal brand and me ‘getting’ my ex a HRO link = maybe he will take me back.
it prob wont work cuz he h8s me. o well.
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@pseudonym2 … probably not “ghey”
but you’re pretty much a faggot.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted January 9th, 2009 at 8:02 am
@Patrick McCue, man you’re negative
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Samba yallz! So comfy. So authentic. You just don’t know.
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