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I shouldn't bother making clothes posts... I always forget how many people have strongly held opinions on things they don't know anything about on here. Those are not skate high tops. They're Dries Van Noten sneakers. That is also not me.
Thankfully, that guy will never get your advice. But just so you know, the feedback provided in here is... well, think of it this way. Say you're going to the hill, and some guy you know who skis maybe five or six times a year on his integrated-binding system carving skis were to come up to you and tell you that you should be skiing on X skis and wearing Y outerwear. That is pretty much what you just did.
"You don't need to "know" anything about skiing to watch it and realize that snowboarding halfpipe looks way cooler and skiing shouldn't be in the olympics except for racing."
That is what you sound like right now.
My point, duder, is that it's not about what I like. It's about that I (or in this case, the guy in the picture) know way more than you, and as a result your opinion is basically meaningless here.
We spend more time on clothing forums, clothing websites, watching runway shows, knowing who works on what design team and what they're coming out with next season, than kids on here spend talking about next year's Armada lineup at SIA and who won what stop on the Dew Tour.
Right now you are being the guy who has never watched a ski movie saying he thinks Warren Miller movies are way better than that "Step Productions" crap you showed him because "skiing on rails is stupid".
My point is that you thinking something "doesn't look good" is fine, wear what you want. The problem you're having is that this is equivalent to a guy who carves on blue runs who thinks skiing on rails is pointless isn't going to jib actually telling park skiers that what they're doing is stupid. Cool man, keep on doing what makes you happy, but don't act like you're in a position to talk down to people who actually care about this shit the way NSers care about skiing.
If you're ignorant about a particular subject you can still have an opinion on it, sure, but don't talk down to people who know more than you do.
Anyway I see no point to continuing this conversation.
So you read GQ magazine huh?
Seriously, what is so hard to understand about this? You guys really sound like when there's a news story about some big mountain skier getting buried in an avalanche and a bunch of people from Wisconsin or wherever who have never spent a day in their lives get on the comments and talk about how these "adrenaline jockeys" get what's coming to them for their selfish risk-taking behaviour. Does that kind of thing not annoy the crap out of you? Then stop doing it.
Ugh. I seriously am staying out of these threads from now on. Hurts to read, in exactly the same way I just described.
Hey does anybody have a recommendation for a good place to these sneakers online? Looking to pick up those sky blue/yellow/black Nike Free Run 2s and every site I click on looks incredibly sketchy. Just want a place I can get them for a decent price without having to worry or be able to use paypal. Thanks!
