Let’s see. I was 5 years old and lived overseas.
They were some kind of canvas slip on bidness. No brand.
[I mostly wore my Euro wooden soled sandals we brought over from Europe with leather strap and a metal buckle or whatever, or I wore some kind of Japanese shit]
Anyway, where I lived in ’74, Puma and Adidas were popular. And not in my size.
7
Jesus, Stirrin’ lolol
I notice that nobody is mentioning platform shoes. My dad drew the line short of there, and I still admire his wisdom to this day.
And that reminds me, stirrin’ …my sixties sneakers were deck shoes. Camp shorts (the grandfather of cargo shirts) white socks and deck shoes. And some striped shirt.
4
Fur, I had those shoes in early 2000 – remakes I suppose.
I had to toss them because they made my knees hurt bad.
4
in my Jr. High & High School years we wouldn’t be caught dead in PF Flyers or Keds or Joe Lapchicks … you didn’t wear Chucks, the girls wouldn’t even look at you
one of my greatest summer conquests (at least I thought so) was because I sported Chucks & the cutest girl in town (IMO) noticed & was making out w/ me at the local movies for everyone to see … then later there was this party … got a lot of street cred for that, even though I was going ‘steady’ w/ another girl from another town at the time … what a cad! … badass at 13! 🙄
4
stirrin- I haven’t seen those shoes since I had a Bible picture book in school.
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@MJA – those sandals made a brief appearance in the fashion scene at my high school – and yes, I owned a pair too. hahah!
2
Fur, you shouldn’t have got me started. Waffle Stompers anyone?
But mine were real wood, no rubber on the bottom. (No, they weren’t very comfy) And the leather strap was thick and the shoes were heavy. If you had good aim, you could kick the shoe off your foot and it would go flying and knock people out 20 yards away.
I miss those shoes.
4
I recall purple Chuck Taylors-especially fashion forward when paired with multi colored sparkly socks.
3
@MJA – funny, funny! All the chicks had those Dr. Scholl’s sandals
2
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, those shoes weren’t popular in my high school either, until the Ramones and “Rock and Roll High School”. I graduated in ‘78, so I missed that fad. My older twin teen kids still wear them. but my younger teen third twin has no interest in them. He’s a sprinter, so he likes fast shoes.
1
^^^^ BLASPHEMY !!!! ^^^^
😉
Wow, Fur! Why are we talking about sneakers? You get the funniest ideas sometimes!
But, yeah, there was a little leather shop in Santa Barbara that made custom sandals. I wore those things for probably ten years. One of a kind. Never would wear out. Yikes. 1974. Sheesh.
@thirdtwin ~ that’s ’cause the nerd’s kids took over the nostalgia craze by then … lol
1
@1Harpazo – Had me many pairs of Jack Purcells, but they were pre-1974. More like in the late 60’s
2
@Erik ~ were your colors Blue & Gold & your mascot was the ‘Cavaliers’?
1
@Thidtwin – “my sixties sneakers were deck shoes…”
Been there, worn those. Ya know, I’m beginning to feel like Imelda Marcos
When Top Siders came back in the early 2000’s, my kids marveled at what a trend setter I was.
3
Fuck no, Molon Labe. But you are correct for the school. The cavaliers and blue and gold can all go to hell.
In 1974 I was wearing mostly my steel toed Navy boots. I did have a pair of red Adidas when I joined the Navy but my younger brother stole them from me while I was gone overseas, and he wore them out because of his wide feet.
3
Either what all the military kids got from the Military Clothing Store or nothing. We all called them butter cookies, they were not known for their grip on anything short of 60 grit sand paper.
I did have a fear pair of Adidas Country cross country running shoes from the BX though. And waffle stompers.
I started wearing Nike Blazer high tops later on though and wore them through about 1985
2
Don’t know what I wore, but I immortalized one of DH’s worn and tattered sneakers in a great pencil drawing for an architectural drawing class.
4
I had like 3 pairs of Converse All-Stars. My favorite pair were lime green. I also had a pair of blue Adidas that I played Tennis in…my first high end tennis shoes.
1
@ Stirrin the pot
DH took to calling me Imelda Marcose many years ago. I finally learned to put the date I purchased the shoes so he could see how long I keep my shoes looking new.
2
No sneakers. Leather hiking boots or snow mobile boots for life in the High Sierras. 🙂
2
The funny thing is that these are back in style!
1974? I got out of the army in late ’71 and hadn’t worn out my GI boots and dress shoes that soon. I do have a few pair of Brooks and New Balance now, in black of course.
But mostly I wear Vionic sandals now, down here in sunny Florida, along with Duluth Trading t-shirt and cargo shorts with a Ruger LC9s in the pocket.
1974? Knowing me, it was probably a pair of oxfords. I seem to recall blue canvas and thick white laces, like Vans’ “Era”. https://www.vans.com/shop/era-navy
My all-time favorite tennys are K-Swiss. You should know them, Fur. They make pickle ball shoes.
And where were they? Wandering the halls of high school.
They were called Red Wing steel toed work boots.
4
Jack Purcells. (The reissues by Converse are a poor imitation.)
My track shoes were Adidas Saturns.
Casual shoes these days are PF Flyers.
Chucks !!
I still got a couple of pair in the closet.
My back hurts just looking at them.
1
We didn’t have much money when I was growing up, so I had to wear Trax (Kmart specials).
2
In 74 I think I was still in the Office – had to wear leather-type shoes.
When I went to the Plumbing Shop we had to wear boots – which was kinda funny since you didn’t really need foot-protection to play cards and drink beer.
izlamo delenda est …
4
I had Dr. Scholls and sometimes while walking one would slip ahead of me and the high heel area would jab into my instep–when I wasn’t properly curling my toes over the bump. I got rid of those expensive sandals, prolly cost 25 bucks or something. But it was supposed to be like walking on a sand beach.
3
K-Mart Traxx.
Plastic bottom, nylon skin, dad buys 2 sizes too big to last the whole year. Slippery, no cushion bottom.
Essentially blue clown shoes.
3
Mostly barefoot if I didn’t have spikes on for a track meet. Hated any restrictiveness down there when I was on my own.
It was something I was known for.
My childhood friend thought of me when I walked into a grocery store barefoot one rainy night 13 years after leaving Texas.
He was counting product on a shelf when I walked behind him and I started throwing out random numbers to throw off this manager I thought I didn’t know.
“Barefoot on a rainy night and jacking with a manager is something (futureDadof4) would do”. We both looked at each other when I got to the end of the aisle. He looked familiar to me, too.
Re-union time!
4
“If you had good aim, you could kick the shoe off your foot and it would go flying and knock people out 20 yards away.”
MJA, that is called “Kung Shoe”.
3
My mother in law often wore white slip on tennis shoes and she was wicked with them when any one of her 9 kids sassed her, she could kick those puppies off, flip it up in the the air real fast, catch them in mid air and smack them as hard as she could before they even realized it. I remember my wife telling me that and how she kept the peace in the house, she was the real enforcer in her house. Knowing my wife, I’m sure she got smacked her fair share, that’s what what you get for being a tom boy with 6 brothers.
3
The cheapest high tops, work boots then I enlisted and my Uncle gave me some more boots.
2
I guess I am the only broke ass mofo who was wearing Jox by Thom Mcan? At my school, the only kids who were “rich” enough to wear the brand name sneakers were the kids on free lunch. Go figure. I guess not paying for your kids’ lunch frees up a lot of money for the shoe budget.
4
K-Mart Black hi tops. Yeah, we were poor. And they were awful. Lasted a couple months.
4
I could run faster and jump higher. I had Converse All-Stars. In 74 my feet were growing fast enough that I didn’t wear them through before I outgrew them.
3
My Dad was a college coach and wore Onitsuka Tigers at the time. I remember bugging him until he got my big brother and I a pair of them. In a sea of kids wearing Adidas, we were kinda cool for those.
3
3 Stripe Adidas were the way to go north of the 48th in 1974.
Remember the year fondly, spent 7 months of it ski-bumming through Austria.
2
“My Dad was a college coach and wore Onitsuka Tigers…”
Which are now Asics and that’s just about all I wear now. They know that feet aren’t all narrow and make them in wide. *stupid wide feet*
1
Chuck Taylors, black and white.
1
Must admit that I wore platforms through 74 and combat boots when the platforms were not appropriate…..
1
Hush puppies anyone? Okay so those were for early grade Cat-lick school but after that ended?
We had Chuck Taylor high tops those KEDS @BFH wore (out) and then believe it or not Nike tennis sneakers in the late 70’s from my bro’s that lived there.
They were made of canvas at the time. This was the pre Puma and Addidas market crush and then Nike caught up and CRUSHED them, well to some degree anyway.
The Keds little stripe on the side said it all.
And Desert Boots, someone up there mentioned DESERT boots. I still have a pair, no arch support, but I dig the look.
If anyone like desert boots ‘Clarkes’ makes them.
And cheap end of the aisle super market knock off sneakers were called ‘Skips’ from what I remember.
Here’s one pair:
https://adictscorner.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/adidas-originals-stan-smith-vintage-06-570×260.jpg
Of course, we called them, harrumph, tennis shoes.
That and blue leather converse basketball (not high tops) sneakers. The Larry Bird kind.
Chucks!
black, hi-tops
ttps://www.converse.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-ConverseMaster/default/dwcc601b0b/images/hi-res/142334C_standard.jpg
now, try to find a pair w/ ‘Made In America’ on the back heel
That was my HS graduation year. Probably Adiidas or Converse. Stan Smiths were in the mix too.
Chucks… White high tops and Jimmy Lewis said he was gonna steal them and I still had them on my feet….I got his cake cutter first….problem solved….
I was wearing cowboy or desert boots in ’74. Didn’t get any sneakers until much later.
Keds. Made you jump higher and run faster.
I believed it too.
hey! those were pro-keds
The Watergate burglars.
Those exact same ones in the pic. And my other shoes were a pair of Wallabees. None of that damn Earth Shoe crap.
And Truckbuddy, I wore desert boots and Wellington boots in elementary school in the 60’s.
In ’74 I wasn’t born yet. You get sneakers — tennis shoes — plimsolls for children because they fuck them up and outgrow them in 4 months.
I threw away my last pair of sneakers when I left Calvert High in 1994.
@Thirdtwin and Truckbuddy – desert boots and wallabees were the non-sneaker foot wear.
Game shoes were beige Adidas suede low tops. Practice shoes were red Keds high tops. Track flats were Converse. The red Keds were my favorite, though.
Anybody wear these?
https://www.rustyzipper.com/full/155031L.jpg
^^^^^. lololol
“In ’74 I wasn’t born yet”
aaaaah shaddap!!! 🤣
Let’s see. I was 5 years old and lived overseas.
They were some kind of canvas slip on bidness. No brand.
[I mostly wore my Euro wooden soled sandals we brought over from Europe with leather strap and a metal buckle or whatever, or I wore some kind of Japanese shit]
Anyway, where I lived in ’74, Puma and Adidas were popular. And not in my size.
Jesus, Stirrin’ lolol
I notice that nobody is mentioning platform shoes. My dad drew the line short of there, and I still admire his wisdom to this day.
And that reminds me, stirrin’ …my sixties sneakers were deck shoes. Camp shorts (the grandfather of cargo shirts) white socks and deck shoes. And some striped shirt.
Fur, I had those shoes in early 2000 – remakes I suppose.
I had to toss them because they made my knees hurt bad.
in my Jr. High & High School years we wouldn’t be caught dead in PF Flyers or Keds or Joe Lapchicks … you didn’t wear Chucks, the girls wouldn’t even look at you
one of my greatest summer conquests (at least I thought so) was because I sported Chucks & the cutest girl in town (IMO) noticed & was making out w/ me at the local movies for everyone to see … then later there was this party … got a lot of street cred for that, even though I was going ‘steady’ w/ another girl from another town at the time … what a cad! … badass at 13! 🙄
stirrin- I haven’t seen those shoes since I had a Bible picture book in school.
@MJA – those sandals made a brief appearance in the fashion scene at my high school – and yes, I owned a pair too. hahah!
Fur, you shouldn’t have got me started. Waffle Stompers anyone?
https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3292/2732/1600/boots.3.jpg
Ooh! Here they are. https://www.shoes.com/dr-scholls-original-collection-original-slide-sandal/773490/1764879?gclsrc=aw.ds&cm_mmc=bingproductads-_-none-_-none-_-none
But mine were real wood, no rubber on the bottom. (No, they weren’t very comfy) And the leather strap was thick and the shoes were heavy. If you had good aim, you could kick the shoe off your foot and it would go flying and knock people out 20 yards away.
I miss those shoes.
I recall purple Chuck Taylors-especially fashion forward when paired with multi colored sparkly socks.
@MJA – funny, funny! All the chicks had those Dr. Scholl’s sandals
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, those shoes weren’t popular in my high school either, until the Ramones and “Rock and Roll High School”. I graduated in ‘78, so I missed that fad. My older twin teen kids still wear them. but my younger teen third twin has no interest in them. He’s a sprinter, so he likes fast shoes.
^^^^ BLASPHEMY !!!! ^^^^
😉
Wow, Fur! Why are we talking about sneakers? You get the funniest ideas sometimes!
But, yeah, there was a little leather shop in Santa Barbara that made custom sandals. I wore those things for probably ten years. One of a kind. Never would wear out. Yikes. 1974. Sheesh.
Jack Purcells were the best.
i got married wearing these, only blue and white….stylin’ dude.https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/7f/9a/397f9ae5e461fb43339fbfae3bd2f347.jpg
i wore tennies from kmart. Remember earth shoes?
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=aeu%2BkRIW&id=0A62C6612C0B0FC291B4D68A8DB24FC35BFEE4CB&thid=OIP.aeu-kRIWD3AlWONQ6jO4xQEsEC&mediaurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgalleryplus.ebayimg.com%2Fws%2Fweb%2F350886646361_1_0_1%2F1000x1000.jpg&exph=863&expw=1000&q=disco+platform+shoes&simid=608046938171377393&ck=7577E7197CCCFD72A1B77595ABD062DB&selectedindex=24&ajaxhist=0&vt=1&sim=11
Mine were blonde patent leather
@thirdtwin ~ that’s ’cause the nerd’s kids took over the nostalgia craze by then … lol
@1Harpazo – Had me many pairs of Jack Purcells, but they were pre-1974. More like in the late 60’s
@Erik ~ were your colors Blue & Gold & your mascot was the ‘Cavaliers’?
@Thidtwin – “my sixties sneakers were deck shoes…”
Been there, worn those. Ya know, I’m beginning to feel like Imelda Marcos
When Top Siders came back in the early 2000’s, my kids marveled at what a trend setter I was.
Fuck no, Molon Labe. But you are correct for the school. The cavaliers and blue and gold can all go to hell.
In 1974 I was wearing mostly my steel toed Navy boots. I did have a pair of red Adidas when I joined the Navy but my younger brother stole them from me while I was gone overseas, and he wore them out because of his wide feet.
Either what all the military kids got from the Military Clothing Store or nothing. We all called them butter cookies, they were not known for their grip on anything short of 60 grit sand paper.
I did have a fear pair of Adidas Country cross country running shoes from the BX though. And waffle stompers.
I started wearing Nike Blazer high tops later on though and wore them through about 1985
Don’t know what I wore, but I immortalized one of DH’s worn and tattered sneakers in a great pencil drawing for an architectural drawing class.
I had like 3 pairs of Converse All-Stars. My favorite pair were lime green. I also had a pair of blue Adidas that I played Tennis in…my first high end tennis shoes.
@ Stirrin the pot
DH took to calling me Imelda Marcose many years ago. I finally learned to put the date I purchased the shoes so he could see how long I keep my shoes looking new.
No sneakers. Leather hiking boots or snow mobile boots for life in the High Sierras. 🙂
The funny thing is that these are back in style!
1974? I got out of the army in late ’71 and hadn’t worn out my GI boots and dress shoes that soon. I do have a few pair of Brooks and New Balance now, in black of course.
But mostly I wear Vionic sandals now, down here in sunny Florida, along with Duluth Trading t-shirt and cargo shorts with a Ruger LC9s in the pocket.
I was 1. I don’t remember.
I was 12 most of the time.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3MdFib40apc/TjxjJBgRJOI/AAAAAAAACy4/RoLqCUB5fLY/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Light+Blue+Chucks.jpg
1974? Knowing me, it was probably a pair of oxfords. I seem to recall blue canvas and thick white laces, like Vans’ “Era”. https://www.vans.com/shop/era-navy
My all-time favorite tennys are K-Swiss. You should know them, Fur. They make pickle ball shoes.
And where were they? Wandering the halls of high school.
They were called Red Wing steel toed work boots.
Jack Purcells. (The reissues by Converse are a poor imitation.)
My track shoes were Adidas Saturns.
Casual shoes these days are PF Flyers.
Chucks !!
I still got a couple of pair in the closet.
My back hurts just looking at them.
We didn’t have much money when I was growing up, so I had to wear Trax (Kmart specials).
In 74 I think I was still in the Office – had to wear leather-type shoes.
When I went to the Plumbing Shop we had to wear boots – which was kinda funny since you didn’t really need foot-protection to play cards and drink beer.
izlamo delenda est …
I had Dr. Scholls and sometimes while walking one would slip ahead of me and the high heel area would jab into my instep–when I wasn’t properly curling my toes over the bump. I got rid of those expensive sandals, prolly cost 25 bucks or something. But it was supposed to be like walking on a sand beach.
K-Mart Traxx.
Plastic bottom, nylon skin, dad buys 2 sizes too big to last the whole year. Slippery, no cushion bottom.
Essentially blue clown shoes.
Mostly barefoot if I didn’t have spikes on for a track meet. Hated any restrictiveness down there when I was on my own.
It was something I was known for.
My childhood friend thought of me when I walked into a grocery store barefoot one rainy night 13 years after leaving Texas.
He was counting product on a shelf when I walked behind him and I started throwing out random numbers to throw off this manager I thought I didn’t know.
“Barefoot on a rainy night and jacking with a manager is something (futureDadof4) would do”. We both looked at each other when I got to the end of the aisle. He looked familiar to me, too.
Re-union time!
“If you had good aim, you could kick the shoe off your foot and it would go flying and knock people out 20 yards away.”
MJA, that is called “Kung Shoe”.
My mother in law often wore white slip on tennis shoes and she was wicked with them when any one of her 9 kids sassed her, she could kick those puppies off, flip it up in the the air real fast, catch them in mid air and smack them as hard as she could before they even realized it. I remember my wife telling me that and how she kept the peace in the house, she was the real enforcer in her house. Knowing my wife, I’m sure she got smacked her fair share, that’s what what you get for being a tom boy with 6 brothers.
The cheapest high tops, work boots then I enlisted and my Uncle gave me some more boots.
I guess I am the only broke ass mofo who was wearing Jox by Thom Mcan? At my school, the only kids who were “rich” enough to wear the brand name sneakers were the kids on free lunch. Go figure. I guess not paying for your kids’ lunch frees up a lot of money for the shoe budget.
K-Mart Black hi tops. Yeah, we were poor. And they were awful. Lasted a couple months.
I could run faster and jump higher. I had Converse All-Stars. In 74 my feet were growing fast enough that I didn’t wear them through before I outgrew them.
My Dad was a college coach and wore Onitsuka Tigers at the time. I remember bugging him until he got my big brother and I a pair of them. In a sea of kids wearing Adidas, we were kinda cool for those.
3 Stripe Adidas were the way to go north of the 48th in 1974.
Remember the year fondly, spent 7 months of it ski-bumming through Austria.
“My Dad was a college coach and wore Onitsuka Tigers…”
Which are now Asics and that’s just about all I wear now. They know that feet aren’t all narrow and make them in wide. *stupid wide feet*
Chuck Taylors, black and white.
Must admit that I wore platforms through 74 and combat boots when the platforms were not appropriate…..
Hush puppies anyone? Okay so those were for early grade Cat-lick school but after that ended?
We had Chuck Taylor high tops those KEDS @BFH wore (out) and then believe it or not Nike tennis sneakers in the late 70’s from my bro’s that lived there.
They were made of canvas at the time. This was the pre Puma and Addidas market crush and then Nike caught up and CRUSHED them, well to some degree anyway.
The Keds little stripe on the side said it all.
And Desert Boots, someone up there mentioned DESERT boots. I still have a pair, no arch support, but I dig the look.
If anyone like desert boots ‘Clarkes’ makes them.
And cheap end of the aisle super market knock off sneakers were called ‘Skips’ from what I remember.
What about Buster Brown?