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Taken from a US auction listing (80s made in france soops):
I got these at X-Large in the early 90s and they were deadstock then. If you don't know the story, the X-Large boys went to great lengths to buy up sporting goods stores' dusty backstock of 80s sneakers. When an Adidas rep heard about this, he decided to do a trial run of re-issued Superstars...and the rest is history. Adidas Originals would never have existed without X-Large. Actually reissued vintage sneakers would never have existed without X-Large.
Speaketh the trutheth?
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I'm all confused. Is the author of the blue text claiming that adidas only discovered an interest in it's own back-catologue of vintage footwear because of x-large? Can someone help me out here!
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Sounds like a guy trying to sell a pair of shoes.
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^^^ exactly right.
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Load of bollox
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"Adidas Originals would not have existed without X-Large........."
Fuck off.
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I'd elements of truth are in there, not too sure if one store or one person was the reason for Originals being set up but it's a fact that peeps, football supporters, shop owners etc used to go around Europe buying up shoes/stock that hadn't been released in the UK the whole thing started way before the 90s.
You only have to look at people like Liverpool entrepreneur Robert wade smith to see that something big was going on and that adidas originals was a reaction to this.
But having said that not too sure how many footie kids where wearing supes back then.
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They wasn't, from what I remember it was all Gazelle's and Trim Trabbs but tbh it was only a matter of time before they started to reissue the old classics anyway, of which the Supe is.
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Yep Supergimp isn't that what originals was set up for.
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Well I imagine it was but you could still buy Superstars, Gazelle's etc before they introduced the Originals range.
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Oohh can o worms or what?
I'm always interested in the history of originals, etc, but who the hell is X-Large?
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