Saturday, July 31, 2010

iD-entify yourself!




i've always always ALWAYS wanted a pair of nike iDs ever since i saw the website in college. a few months ago, i was walking around oxford circus in london waiting for a friend, just taking a look around the big ass niketown with no intention to buy anything. then i discovered they had a nikeiD studio on the 2nd floor!! an hour later in there i ended up making and ordering a pair of dunks for 90 pounds. they take a month to make, and then you can pick it up free of charge from the store. after hearing you could customise shoes i always knew i wanted a pair of hi tops, fo sho! so hi dunks for me were the way to go.

the overlay and strap are black suede, the collar is shiny orange-y full grain leather and the underlay all round is a waxed twill suit. they are super comfortable, one of very few that fit me well, cos the rest of my sneakers are normally 1-2 sizes too big:( first day i wanted to wear these i put them on twice and put them away each time, it looked like it was about to rain and was too risky to get the suede wet!




i'm no boxer



so these are my adidas 'boxing boots' i got from venice about 5 years ago on a family holiday. i was probably about 16 or 17 at the time and had no real interest in sneakers back then, and didn't have the nerve to wear them for about 3 years... i vaguely remember getting them from a foot locker or a small shoe store which was on sale, my mum encouraged my sister and i to get a pair each, it was a 2 for 1 sale... "soooooooo cheap!". my sister got a grey/blue colorway but i tried searching for them last year in our house, never to be found:( by now these are a well worn scuffed up pair, as you can tell. awesome to rock with short shorts:)

in the beginning


HELLO EVERYONE!

welcome to my sneaker(/lifestyle?) blog.. i come to you with intentions of bearing photos of my own sneaker collection, and anything else in my life sneaker related - my #1 passion!

feel free to love or hate on what i post, my motive isn't to talk about the latest and greatest kicks (i can't keep up with trends!) but just to write about my sneaker love, and hopefully meet some like-minded people through this site... hope you guys enjoy :D

em x

p.s : that's my dog rufus lee homeboy, he will play part time model throughout this blog.