Saturday, October 29, 2005

She's got her daddy's shoes

Back home at my parents’ last weekend, I took off my new trainers as I went in the house through the kitchen. They're the third pair of Adidas Stan Smith's I've had. I keep buying them because I really like them and they won't make them forever and, anyway, this new pair is a bit different because the velcro bits are green.

By the time I went to leave, some hours later, my Dad’s Green Flash were sitting next to my Stan Smith's. With the new green velcro bits they really matched. My brother and I spent much of our childhood being in turn embarrassed and amused that my Dad has always worn Dunlop Green Flash trainers. He started wearing them when they were sort of in fashion, way back in my middle school days, he wore them right on through the eighties, then the nineties and still wears them now, after they've actually come back into vogue. I never understood why my dad wasn’t striving to get better and better trainers. It seemed so horribly basic and functional to say 'this will do, these trainers are good enough, I need never try the ones with the air bubbles or the velcro or...'

You could hardly spot the difference between the third pair of Stan Smith’s and the tenth pair of Green Flash.

My next pair of trainers will be totally different though, because I've just seen the new Stan Smith’s and there’s a lovely pair with pink velcro bits.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My dad wore sandshoes constantly - you know the ones that look like deck shoes - ahoy skipper and all that. And when on holiday abroad, used to pair them with a lovely pair of natty shorts, a vest, and would wear socks with them. Then finish the combo off with a camera round his neck, and perhaps a baseball hat.
Sheesh. No wonder i'm scarred.

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