Posted: April 22nd, 2011 | Author: hitopharry | Filed under: 80s, adidas, adidas originals, basketball shoes, limited edition, metro attitude, trefoil, womens | Tags: 80s, adidas, basketball shoes, metro attitude, womans | No Comments »
Women’s Adidas Metro Attitude Hi – Grey & Roses
Available now in all women’s sizes for €99 are these girly girl’s Adidas Big Tongue Metro Attitude Hi’s. These All-Over Floral print models are familiar to those who jumped into the Jeremy Scott X Adidas craze which hit the mainstream sneaker community in 2010/11 – this time however the famous Trefoil set against a grey and rosy canvas backdrop. These have the look of rarity and exclusivity, but are at an attainable proce from an online seller – so girls, get clicking! Available at Good Will Out now!
Posted: November 4th, 2009 | Author: hitopharry | Filed under: basketball shoes, bringback, hightops, hitops, reebok, reebok pump, retro | Tags: basketball shoes, bringback. retro, reebok, reebok pump | No Comments »
20th Anniversary of ‘The Pump!’ – The History
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!
NEXT ON THE UK’S REACTION TO THE PUMP! NOW & THEN
