It’s not like they had to grey market those boards though. If they’re ordering and getting the boards, maybe it’s up to the distros to call it.
I’m in the pub and not listening to it though, maybe I missed something.
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Jealous. I’ve just done 60 minutes of exercise. Awful
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This is my exercise. I only came here so I’m not looking at a computer screen for the tenth night in a row.
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Aww, can’t see the comments as i binned off insta.
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Totally agree with @buildafire and @sk8arrog8 ’s points here.
Just because they’re a bigger operation they’re still legit, but that post/diss was unnecessary from Forde IMO
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I mean Icon were ok, but that’s a bit of a stretch.
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What era was this?
Also, with a large corpus of mags to check… did the catalogue style advert die out as soon as online became a thing? Wasn’t something I ever consciously noticed.
I guess that without RS Hanley, there wouldn’t have been Dazed (Stoke SOS, ran buy the guy that managed RS Hanley) who helped get Stoke Plaza built. I think, maybe a bit of a tenuous link and just a bit before my time down in this part of the world.
Will be heading over to Derby in a couple of weeks for the Big Game of Skate (are you playing out @KeithBeef ?).
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Doesn’t part of the Snakes beef stem from being left off this t-shirt from a few years back?
I mean, technically, they aren’t skater owned! But they have always employed skaters.
Edit: actually they are skater owned. Maybe that’s unfair.
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Mid/late '90s. Full story coming soon in a sensational, uncensored tell-all book.
Those ads seemed to die down by the late '00s. It was Tim Leighton-Boyce that started those HSC ads with all the pictures, and then Mat Fowler did them.
SUMO did catalogue-ish ads into the mid 00s, using Sam Ashley’s considerable skills to photograph a load of heinous DVS Stealths, Es Vireos and that sort of thing
I loved the Cali4niaskatexpress and Skully Bros ones in Thrasher that had full set ups at a fixed price, even though there’s no way I could order anything.
CCS were doing it until the bitter end, I bet they were the last one going.
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Some of those are here: Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
I ordered a pair of Vision Shockwave from CCS, and was probably more excited to get this in the box than the shoes:
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Might be wrong but I don’t think it’s about that.
Choosing Skate Shop Day to address their irritation with not being in a Whatsapp group might be the reason they’re not in the Whatsapp group 
*I’m not in the Whatsapp group
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You ordered from America! Baller.
I think I’d outgrown the shoes by the time they got here.
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Haha I think they woud probably have gone out of fashion too. Those were right at the end of the high top era so there are loads of NOS pairs left in warehouses. One of the few shoes from that era you can buy now for a reasonable price.
Same for me in the mid 80’s with a pair of Vans that took three months to get here. Cut out order form from a copy of Freestylin’, get international money order, stick in post, cross fingers and hope for the best. In retrospect paying for air freight rather than having them stuck on a container ship probably would have been a better idea.
Edit: I got them from Rockville. I like to think that Spike Jonze packed them.
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Woah. They almost look alright now. They felt really low profile at the time, certainly compared to the DV8 I had previously.
There was a shop in Ayr (meaningless seaside town in Scotland near where I lived) that had a load of these, which were even more disgusting, in what must have been early-1992. Everybody bought them up, cut them down, and never wore them, but it seemed like an incredibly exciting novelty that some crappy shop in the high street had a load of American skate shoes.
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Three formula one racing drivers that share names with places in Scotland:
Sterling Moss
Lewis Hamilton
Ayr Toon-Centre
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