I'd love to hear some stories of how people go into Supes, pics of their first pair, etc.
I first appreciated them back in high school (about 16 years ago), but didn't get my first pair until college (about 13 years ago). Plain white/navy like the ones shown below...I remember looking everywhere to find them (you'd think such a simple colorway would have been easy to find). Wore them into the ground, and immediately replaced them with the same pair, and since then, have been hooked and got some not-so-plain pairs (but still a small collection compared to other folks!)
Would love to hear others' stories and pics (if available)

I can't remember, i was only a nipper.

Can't remember exactly either, got my first pair about 25-26 years ago when i was 5-ish. The only thing i do remember, they were white with black or blue stripes and that's about it. I doubt the original pair's been stored anywhere for future reference so i could take a pic.. Not quite sure either what initially got me into loving them as much as i do now. Must have been something powerful.

Always wore a pair of black or white supes (or occasionally black Gazelles ) to the ground throughout my school years and didn't get a new pair until the current ones were totally beaten to death. I sure loved them and wore supes everywhere all the time when being outside. Then again i was also many years without any white ones due to getting kinda sick of them until recently i've been starting to get some various white pairs again. Seriously started to pay more interest in supes collecting wise only a couple of years ago and have since sloooowly been building up the collection with a 0-4 pairs a month on average, sometimes more, sometimes less depending what i come across.

SS2's white with brown stripes and orange reflecty bits, got em around dec 04 i think...

Pair of noikes I had fell apart far earlier than they should've and I swore I'd never buy another pair as long as I lived.
Bought a pair of Superstars and never looked back.
White with navy stripes if I remember rightly but they might'v been black.
Mid to late 80s as best as I can recall.

Black with white stripes n shell when i was 8 or so.
Then i got into gazelles and when i bought stars again it was W5s

To turn this around a bit, at what age do you think you will stop wearing them and start wearing brogues or some other such old mans attire, will be funny being an old bloke wearing supes with fat laces

Pair of G6s. Loved them to death. Until I found this site and discovered they were fakes.

First genuine pair was my pair of Ultrastar Tweeds. They look like this (pic borrowed from sk
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edit: No they weren't, it was a pair of SS Lux's (pic borrowed from ez-1). Got them a month or so after lurking on SSDB for a while. They were the only pair of superstars in the local soletrader and I thought I could wear them for a bit of smarter wear. Still one of my favourites

My first pair was black with white stripes.

Classic! I was a kid (not sure the age but I was probably 15 or 16) and had a pair of Vans slip ons with a tropical scene on them. They gave me blisters and my mom went out to buy me a new pair of shoes. She got me the Superstars because the sales guy said they were durable and comfy. They were also black so she figured they wouldn't look so dirty when I wore them to church in sundays.

Upper Playgrounds, purchased just after Livestock opened in Toronto. I'd always been afraid of soops because they weren't comfy right out of the box. I was strictly Stan Smiths growing up and then Gazelles once my feet stopped growing.

Second pair was snake skin vins and after that it was pure soop mania.

1987, I remember it well as I'd been after a pair for years already by that point. My Dad was working in German a lot at the time and after months of pestering he finally came home one weekend with a pair of "Made In France" white SS1's with black stripes. That were slightly too small but I couldn't have been happier. Second pair came about 18 months later when I scored a wht/red pair in Amsterdam.

Mmmh year 2000 needed / was told had to wear black or all white shoes for nurse training. Really liked supes after seeing such bands as Korn and Run DMC wear em etc. Decided the lesbian white flats the older nurses wore where not going to be rocked on my young ass feet. So i got a white SS2 with silver stripes n eyelets. Wore them till stones came thru the sole and the sold started to come away. Then they went sadly to heaven.

Got my first supes at the start of 07 (Late starter I know!), a pair of black suede ones, got them when I was returning another inferior brand of sneaks that the stitching had popped on...

My BL5's. Got em a few years ago, maybe 4 or 5 years ago. From JD. Desperately wanted some supes, had looked all over town, and saw these and thought they were great.
Now I realise how wrong I was. With their nasty interchangable stripes, which are broken. Just a matter of time before they go to hell as they are my beaters.

Had tons of adidas during my misspent yoot, can't remember if any were soops - shocking I know!

Could have been earlier this decade when I was becoming all MEH with other makes of kicks. Bought some soops, then a few more soops then found this place.

Cracky I can't wait until I'm an arl fart and still rocking the shells and phats, man!



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