About a year and a half ago, I became fascinated with high tops. Ditched the low top-low cut shoes I had been wearing for years in favor of a different flavor – high tops. There are many brands that make high top sneakers, but only one that I’ve found and like enough to buy pair after pair – DC Shoes. Right now, I’m on my sixth pair of DC high tops and that’s no easy task. I abuse shoes. In college, I murdered a pair of Reebok Classics in less than a month. Destroyed. Stitching was popping out, toe cap was worn, and they were faded.
My feet have been wrapped in DC goodness and been all over the place. If you follow this blog, you know I travel for work, and if you catch me on the street I’m probably wearing a pair of bright DCs. In the image above, the shoes start in top right and end in bottom left chronologically Oldest to Newest pair of high tops.
These brown, blue, and tan Spartans are my first pair of high top DCs. I owned a few pairs of low top DCs prior to the Spartans, but these shoes made me fall in love with the feel, the look, and the style – the color is understated and the design is clean.
These spartans are special. I learned to ride a motorcycle in this pair. Check out the wear in front of the laces on the toe cap from my motorcycle’s shift lever.
These three are my newest. The white/blue/green spartans are fresh. I usually only bring them out when I know they will stay clean. Which us difficult for me to achieve – because I tend to spontaneous break dance, jump around, and rock out.
These rebounds are worn like a good book’s jacket or the lines on a elderly person’s face. If these shoes could talk, they would tell you about walking around in Dubai, working on the Project Westy van for Keep Drifting Fun, or how they enjoy compliments about their color. This color is awesome, there is something about it that I connect with and is very representative of me. A large reason why I wear them so frequently.
These rebounds were bought at the DC store on Melrose in Los Angeles. The pattern on the inside is what sold me on them. Here is a great angle showing how I tuck the laces inside to keep the exterior even cleaner. Which also gives the tongue more poof and size. Which is a characteristic of the old late 90′s DCs which I liked in school.
The red rebounds are coated in primer over spray, have chipped plaster from ceilings while jumping on beds, and were worn across the US and back on the Nation of Go tour.
If the rebounds were a person, they would be a blue collar-hard working mechanic who secretly likes whiskey mojitos.
The new steez are the Rob Dyrdek signature mid-tops. Perforated leather, baby blue, quick lace style, and classic flat sneaker profile. Not as wide and flared at the top like the Spartans or Rebounds, but with the same style and character as the other DC’s I’ve grown to love.
Skinny jeans, a clean t-shirt, and a bright pair of DC’s – that’s me.
by Will
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