[avi]

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)

[cracky]

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

[Grimmy]

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.

[Dirty]

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

[mr.pure]

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.

[DasBill]

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

[cracky]

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

[reid]

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

[King of the Farm]

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.

[Lorrie]

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.