For all you Hitop and Skate gear folks in Los Angeles, get yourselves down to 413 on Fairfax this weekend. This Warehouse sale will be of the last season’s kicks and threads, with sneakers from $25 it’s worth dropping in. From 12pm onwards today and tomorrow.
FACTORY 413 I 413 S. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Having archived 1000s of hitops ourselves and then losing all the data, HitopHeaven are both pleased and miffed to announce the new SneakerPedia being launched by Foot Locker. The premise, like our very ow one, was very simple, if you own a shoe and collection – UPLOAD THEM AND SHOW OFF YOUR BEAUTIES.
Any progress in the sneaker community is good news to us at HTH, we will surely be participating!
Available now on eBay UK are these collectors items, Size? X Reebok Pump 20’s in a size 20 (US). Click here. At £380 they’re not cheap – but if you’re looking for a sneaker to put in a glass case this is it!
We are a generation brought up on promising, bright coloured advertising, and nowhere is this more apparent than footwear commercials of the 1980s and early 1990s. It had got to the point, when the Reebok Pump was elbowing its’ way to popularity against the Nike Air, that their campaigns would openly go against the rival brands product. This almost became the style of cool, brands advertisements going out there and saying their footwear is better. For this reason, Hitop Heaven has given the 1989 Reebok Pump commercial starring Dominique Wilkins the top spot – for its’ simple retro grace, and classic superstar endorsement.
At number 2, none only than MC Hammer doing his bit for British Knight’s footwear, another commercial trying to aim sneaker wearers away from the dominant force Nike.
The next two have made the shortlist, purely for their stupidness, let yous sneaker geek eyes feast on these next 2 retro commercial gems.
And finally, coming fifth in this current top five count down, is an all star show out for Converse Weapon, this campaign reaching our screens during the NBA’s 1986/1987 title.
If you have any suggestions for any sneaker ads that beat any of these into the Top 5 Retro Sneaker Ads, post them below in the comments!
Available for less than a week are an original pair of Reebok Twilight Zone’s from eBay USA. They are available internationally, and are currently going for less than $70. If you’re a size 11UK / 12US check them out, they’re used, but hold far more cred than the reprods available in stores and eBay at the moment – a true gem:
Celebrations for the 20th Anniversary of the Pump continue as Reebok release the Twilight Zone Pump. Unlike the actual 20th anniversary Pump editions, reprods of the 1989 classics, these Pumps are based on the OG model of the 1990’s – the only difference being that the midsole is slightly slimmer. Available in only two colours, basically black or white, we’ve chosen to show the White/Neon Yellow/Black model.
If you wanted to get your hands on the original Bringbacks which were released on über limited edition in December, these will soften the blow as theyre available for all at size? online now for £89.99 in various sizes:
If you have been lucky enough to get your hands on some 20th Anniversary Pumps or you’re interested in some history and information on the late 80’s basketball shoe phenomenon, check the official link above.
Twenty years ago, Paul Litchfield was working on a design for a new innovative shoe design, which on the drawing board was going to called the ‘Air’ or ‘Custom’, but is what we know now as ‘The Pump’ (… well legally speaking ‘The Pump by Reebok’ thanks to a shaving cream company!). It was also the Hexalite and Graphlite models that have their 20th anniversary this year, but in two decades some people might say that The Pump’s evolution has been slow, but you just have to look at the hundreds of rare collaborations and Limited Editions out there – www.sneakerfreaker.com has a huge archive of these!
The Pump came out of an intense company turf war, athletic gear was by far the mark of Eighties trends, and this commercial warfare was a race was for the most technical shoe, at the best price also, and The Pump was a visible technology with a more than marketable appeal. The Prototypes ‘The Pump Shot’ and the ‘Pro Pump’, were the first shoes that Reebok revealed at the Atlanta Super Show in February of 1989, at the same show that Nike first previewed the ‘Air Pressure’, but the fact that Reebok aimed at the basketball market meant that the deserved winner came through in the end. Regardless to costing nearly twice as much as competitors at first ($170 over the usual $100), and whether you think it is a gimmick or a style icon, Reebok are making a big deal of the anniversary – with new designs and models to be announced on the horizon, aiming to please both the thirty-something’s who’d bought them between playing their Commodore 64 and hearing Grandmaster Flash on the radio, to today’s generation of retro respecters.
MORE 20TH ANNIVERSARY ARTICLES THIS MONTH TO CELEBRATE!
