dear stan smiths: please do not get all trucker hat on me, now...

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i love you, stans. since i was 14, you've been my number one shoe. yes i had flings with pumas, and you know i'll always have a little something something on the side with white chucks, and yes, I even hooked up with your cousin rod lavers once or twice. but stans, you know you're my true love. i even kept buying new pairs when you got a little puffy and soft. dman i hate how they steroided you out like that, but at least they didn't fuck with you too much. yeah, now your green-grass back tab comes in navy and red and even white (that all-white look is kinda hot on you, stans, kinda naughty nurse-ish), but you're still pretty classic. now what i want to know is, what's up with you showing up in the club monaco window on all the mannequin's feet? and i'm seeing you on some unsavoury characters' feets out there. you're better than that, stans, you ain't von dutch. see the type of guy who should be rocking stans should be: carrying a cup of take-out cofee and a rolled up newspaper, some nice cleanish levi's and maybe a hoody. you know, a regular fucking guy. you know, basically, me. quit fucking around, stans, let's keep this low-key like seashells.
love, fritz

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Switch to Dunlop Green Flash.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

too flashy!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

jack purcells?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

love the jack purcells! (sorry stans)
a little hard to find around here.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

see the thing about purcells - don't get me wong, i love em - is they're really just sophisticated chucks. verging on bookish, but a beautiful damn shoe, but really just well-read chucks. fresh stans - in the original green & white - are more unassuming and solid, like the al jackson of shoes. there's zero keith moon freakout power to stans, (that's be shelltoe superstars maybe, all flash but powerful). everything about stans is economical, perfectly behind the beat and sharp but still gritty. purcells are similar, but less funky. still love em.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

stans are one of those shoes i've always admired from afar but never been able to pull off myself. anyway fritz don't worry: the popularity spike happens with lots of classics but it hardly ever affects anything over the long term besides availability

― jones (actual), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

purcells?

http://www.jackpurcell.com/jack%20purcell/blackjack.jpg

shit is fugly!

― Amon (eman), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

haha try playing badminton in anything else! i mean, please. i need the handicap.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant white purcells.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had my all black Stans for seven years and they're still going strong. Good old Stan.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Superstars better. Stans look stupid on me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was always a Puma G'mo Vilas boy. They may have had some extra subcultural cachet amongst mid-80s Goodison terrace lads that I was too square to pick up on, but they never got me beaten up so they were obviously magic.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

black purcells? heresy.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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