Astroag said:
BCG Disciple said:
Astroag said:
Do what you want and call them what you want but it's a weird flex to roll around with fake versions of real products…
They give you confidence bc they are the grails of the sneaker industry and impossible to get.
Are you telling people they are fakes?
Fan of real HEAT only, I presume?
lol. I don't even have any real heat…sb4's is prolly the only real heat I have. The rest are stuff you coulda bought on drop without much fuss.
It's just strange to me. I wouldn't rock a fake high-end watch either…
I have two pair of fake shoes.
One is the original travis scott low, and I feel weird about wearing those. I bought them because I loved the design so much and wanted to have the colorway in my collection. That reverse swoosh has become a status symbol now, so I feel like a phony when I wear them out. It's like a girl walking around with a fake louis vuitton purse that just want their friends to see the LV logo and think "ohhh she's fancy." I didn't get those for that reason, but they have come to feel like that, so I feel weird wearing them. I think of them as my "fakes." they basically only come out when I go to the grocery store, but never ever under any circumstances would i wear them where "fancy sneakers" would expected.
The second is a copy of the marty mcfly dunks. I bought those because it's one of my favorite shoes ever, but they are 10 years old and likely never to be re-released. When I saw that a maker was doing a custom run, I jumped on them. I don't feel weird wearing those at all because nobody cares about them and they would never be confused with someone trying to show status. I think of these as "reproductions" (even though they are also fakes). To me, it's no different than a nerd that commissioned a copy of skywalker's lightsaber. I just happen to be a different kind of nerd.
And anyone who complemented me on either would learn they aren't real.
That being said, I don't care if people have fake sneakers because I don't appreciate what the money hustle secondary market had done to sneakers until only recently. People backdooring 150 pairs to make money took shoes out of the hands of people that liked them. Then FOMO had people buying them to show they had them, not because they necessarily liked them. To me, that's just as fake as wearing fakes.
Now, if you are wearing fakes because you want to look like you have something nobody else has, well, that's a different story.
Also, I think the watch analogy is a bad one. A high end watch will have a nice movement, quality materials, etc. A fake version of that watch won't have any of that. You're actually getting an inferior product. If you buy a legit $500, $1500, $10,000, and $50,000 watch, you more and more out of each one. And they hold their value, while some become more coveted.
Shoes are shoes for the most part. If you buy a $1750 pair of travis scotts, you're not getting more shoe. You're getting the same pair that retailed for $150 before the hype got to them.
