My sneakers -1974 – IOTW Report

My sneakers -1974

What were yours in 1974?

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  1. 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

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  2. 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….

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. “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.

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  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.

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  8. 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! 🙄

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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.

  11. @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.

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  12. 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

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  13. 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.

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  14. @ 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.

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  15. 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.

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  16. 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 …

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  17. 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.

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  18. 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.

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  19. 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!

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  20. 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.

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  21. 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.

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  22. 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.

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  23. “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*

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  24. 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?

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