Mostly because I just went and got a new pair of shoes for the new school year, and there hasn't been a post in 45 minutes (at the time I started writing this thread). To skip past the story and get on to the shes, skip this next block of text.

I looked through running shoes and couldn't find a shoe with "enough to it" for me to actually find it comfortable. I looked in K-Swiss and found something that looked like a basketball shoe with a flat sole, which seemed like the perfect shoe for me. Except it was built for something with feet that just weren't mine. So after 15 minutes of searching, I succumbed to basketball shoes again. My God, there's nothing I've ever worn as comfortable as basketball shoes. My last pair of shoes were some Nike Airs that I've worn to DEATH, and before that another Nike I forgot the name of. I have a pair of K-Swiss skater-style shoes, but those just never got worn much because I can't run in them. And I need to be able to run, I don't have 5 pairs of shoes for every occasion, I have 3. Mud shoes, nice shoes, and everyday shoes. Basketball shoes are just the most versatile, comfortable shoes I've ever warn.

I settled on a pair of black Adidas Floaters (How horrible of a name is that? :gonk:) and they're already amazing after just 3 days of wearing them. My Nike Airs can rest in piece.



tl;dr/ooo, pictures!, post your shoes.

Edit^4: Fixed for ****ing good.

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I wear shoes.

I wear feet.

They are amazingly comfortable.

Once you get to a certain age you shouldn't wear sneakers anymore because they make you look like a man-child.

I like yours Phantom.

I wear Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars. I've been kicking them since the beginnning of summer. They're pretty kickass. I will continue wearing them until the forseeable future,

I wear some Brooks shoes and Columbia sandals.

Braun Klausner. Nice brand, yet a bit itchy.

It must be nice to not only forget about regular polishing, but to also forget those uncomfortable break-in periods. The boots they issued me were literally from the '60s, and required at least two pairs of fresh wool socks to break in.

Oh you still have to break those in, it just doesn't take as long.

At Basic during our last FTX, one of the gromets(sp?) in my pair of boots I'd been wearing the whole time broke. So Drill Sergeant drove me all the way back to CIF to get a new pair BEFORE the last roadmarch, which was 15 miles.


It suxd bad

I wear cheap, generic trainers.

Ouch ouch and ouch. I only meant that the new boots don't require about a month of breaking in, but goddamn, a fresh pair just before an FTX is murder, I don't care what era the boots are from.

I think Drill Sergeant just did it to be mean Those bastards at Knox... Bunch of Tankers and Scouts.


But then again, If I was a Drill Sergeant, I'd probably do the same thing.



On the boots: You're talking about the Oakley's, right?

Yeah, the Oakley Assault boots. I'm one of those mother ****ers who was diagnosed with E.I.A. a year into ROTC, so I never got to try any of the **** they were modifying for use in the sandbox.

K-swiss msakes a pretty kickass parkour shoe. the Ariake. >.>

I'm on my second pair of New Balance 602's. I really love this shoe. It's fantastic for parkour, but I also use them as my normal shoe. Really great shoes.

i wear hiking shoes, they last forever.

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I've got a pair of these guys that I wear fairly regularly:

http://www.florsheim.com/shop-fl/newarrivals/hixon/prod18543.html

And after seeing the site, I just ordered a pair of these:

http://www.florsheim.com/shop-fl/shoes/fsport/stage/prod18489.html

I'm wearing nothing, BKE Flippy McFloppies, or some Skechers that are pretty nice.

I also have a swanky pair o' Mizuno runners that make me feel all hot and bothered just thinkin' about 'em.

I change between these.



But I'm in the market just now because the adidas things are old and starting to fall apart. And considering they're impossible to destroy I'm surprised they aren't growing a civilisation inside them.

I love those converse! I've been trying for months to find a pair like that one, alas none of them fit my size! Apparently, Mexicans don't have big feet, or what we call normal feet.

...They make them in every size you want.

Hell my mate with Size 15s found a pair.

I'm going to have to replace my chucks because after five or six years the leather finally gave out.

I'm thinking about getting some new boots made too. With a 3 and a half inch heel, *****es.

Maybe its just my city or something, but I have a hell of a time finding anything bigger than a size 9 1/2.

Heelys ftw.

When you're sick, seeing that makes you want to puke.:suicide:

All the shoes I own.
Brown hand-me-downs for church on sunday and the others for everything else.

most of the time i wear these. i think i need a new pair, or just new shoes in general.

Our Sergeant Major doesn't like uniform items that are not issued at CIF.

He gave one guy an article 15, barred him from getting E-6 for 2 months for wearing oakleys because he said the guy was out of uniform.

That's ridiculous. Does he ride people for wearing camel packs?

Oh, and my shoes are either ****ty gap flip-flops, vans, or:

Those are not Vans! I'm saddened, Ford. Saddened.

Speaking of, mine sort of look like these:

Oh great, Geb and I wear the same shoes. This leaves me one option: I must devour his brain.

i haven't worn vans in like....4 years.

The only place we can wear a camelbak is on the outside of our IBA's.

He flips out if we have reflective lenses in our oakleys, if we have non-standard reflexive fire grips on our M4's. Just stupid ****.
He almost killed one of the CA guys for wearing these new Nomex shirts. They're like an underarmor shirt with an ACU color and sleeves.

People who wear those either look like complete tools or completely :awesome:, never in between. Also isn't there ever like a danger of just randomly having them slide out from under you like a pair of rollerblades and falling on your ***?

I desperately need new shoes, I've been wearing my current every-day ones for three years. I've worn through the backs all the way to the plastic support.

I got a pair of these last year to hold me over, because they were cheap and comfortable. I probably wear them about half the time, and the three year old shoes the other half.

I wear these.



They were the pair of shoes I had before my last pair. I liked them then and I like them now. I actually tie the laces down really tight so they fit like normal shoes. They're pretty light, give me good grip and movement, and they look cool. Unfortunately, I haven't been doing any skating at all and they're not the best for parkour, but oh well.

i gots a pair of these:


and one of these: