are they worth it???
- Thread starter jjinit
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Honestly, I can't think of a greater sign of any commodity in the retail world today, if not ever, that signifys the purchaser has not only more money than sense (of which this is the ultimate example), though an abject lack of taste or style, nor sense of history, soul, practicality or fashion.
Y3 stuff is Cocaine clothing at best (Take a pikey Addidas sport item, stick the Y3 logo on an multiply the price by 6), but these really take the biscuit.
I just assumed they were made to cash in on a few Japanese wealthy trainer heads that are dying to grab a piece of someone elses culture or history, without having any sense of what it really is.
(I assume you're joking though, right?!)
Y3 stuff is Cocaine clothing at best (Take a pikey Addidas sport item, stick the Y3 logo on an multiply the price by 6), but these really take the biscuit.
I just assumed they were made to cash in on a few Japanese wealthy trainer heads that are dying to grab a piece of someone elses culture or history, without having any sense of what it really is.
(I assume you're joking though, right?!)
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stefranceuk
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They are horrible and anyone who buys them as they have The Hac on em is a fool!
fatphilb
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I assume you are taking the ****ing piss????
wow some strong views!!
I like to think I have money & sense in equal measures. To me it wouldnt be about buying just the trainers, but what they represent. The hac & the scene that came with it was all part of my formative years so to me, buying these would be like Dan buying a pair of Ricky Villas boots or something like that, him being the biggest spurs fan in the world. I probably woulnt wear them, as I have never worn my Ian Brown Adidas Superstars. The reality is that due to the price being similar to that of a pram, I know WHAT i will be spending the money on!!!
I like to think I have money & sense in equal measures. To me it wouldnt be about buying just the trainers, but what they represent. The hac & the scene that came with it was all part of my formative years so to me, buying these would be like Dan buying a pair of Ricky Villas boots or something like that, him being the biggest spurs fan in the world. I probably woulnt wear them, as I have never worn my Ian Brown Adidas Superstars. The reality is that due to the price being similar to that of a pram, I know WHAT i will be spending the money on!!!
(For the record, I'm certainly not the worlds biggest Spurs fan, and hate fellow Spurs fans as much as Robder hates The Gays
)Don't get me wrong, it's your money and you can do what you like with it, and I've never been one for material shows of emotional attachment, but to buy an obscenely artificially inflated price for a pair of functional footwear that you'll never wear? Well, I can think of other ways and means of showing the world your devotion to the cause, or that YOU were a real Hacienda regular.
(That, and I've always seen the Hac as like Studio 54 or the 'Garage (
) - If you did a straw poll of all the people that claimed to have gone there week in week out for all years of it's opening, the number would probably exceed the census count of all the people living in Manhattan or Manchester respectively )MarkSimpson
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The equivalent of Ricky Villa's boots would be a slipmat that was actually used in the Hacienda. These are more akin to a new pair of football boots with "Ricky Villa" written on the tongue, they have no actual connection to the club - I imagine any pair of shoes that did would be pretty stinking! I don't think they look great and no pair of shoes is worth that kind of money.
Buckley
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Exactly. JJ, sorry mate, but purchasing these would be like getting 'mug punter' branded across your forehead.
The product has nothing whatsover to do with Hacienda bar Addidas licensing the name to shift units.
Beckiboo
Active Member
well a fool and his money are easily parted so that makes me a big fool!!!
dan you are right the world is full of 30 somethings who say they used to go but the nearest they got was looking round the show flats when they knoecked it down I WAS a regular at the hac and I still get the shakes to prove it and I was also at Wembley in 81....both times and have the tears to prove that too
dan you are right the world is full of 30 somethings who say they used to go but the nearest they got was looking round the show flats when they knoecked it down I WAS a regular at the hac and I still get the shakes to prove it and I was also at Wembley in 81....both times and have the tears to prove that too
fatphilb
Well-Known Member
you never?!?!?
I suppose none of you approve of me calling my first child
Francis Lee Colin Sven Ian Curtis Graeme Park Mike Pickering Jacob Then??
regardless of sexl!!!
Beckiboo
Active Member
It's better than Lexi or Roxi anyway!
agentundercover
Active Member
Not strictly correct,
'The shoe’s design is a collaboration between Peter Saville (the original Factory Records graphic designer), Ben Kelly (the architect who designed the original Haçienda interiors) and Joy Division/New Order bass player, Peter Hook.'
thats what the internet says anyway. must be true.
can just imagine it, adidas rep - 'hooky whats your favourite colour', hooky - 'gold, now give me the fUUkin cheque'
