I don’t remember them being that easy to get hold of at the time to be honest.
Wonder how those Lucas shoes will skate? I remember reading somewhere he takes the insoles out of his shoes before he skates in them, so imagine lots of boardfeel.
Edit: Found it in a thrasher interview
Is it true you skate without insoles? When did that start?
Man, I can’t even remember. I got a few pairs of shoes and they were too small so I took the insoles out and skated like that. Then when I got a bigger sized shoe I left them in and I was, like, “This is so weird.” So then I took them out and—Boom! Everything flipped so good. For me, it’s about the pop and control. I’m not really jumping down stuff so much nowadays, so it’s fine. Before I would put the insoles in when I had to jump.
These are some of the best shoes I’ve ever had. Had 2 pairs of them so far, in an off-white/cream combo and would keep buying them forever if I could, but all the colours recently have been weird neon.
The leather and white with blue stripes did it for me. Make that shoe forever. Do white with red stripes too. Wish I’d grabbed a pair of these when they came out…
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Imagine trying to skate in it.
Ouch.
I think they’ll look better in another colour.
They look like a Dekline shoe.
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The loooooooong feet look.
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Lovely boardfeel in those.
Should have said. This is not some boxing skate shoe crossover by Adidas it’s just that the Vans shoe looks like a boxing shoe.
$140 for the Lucas shoes. Seems reasonable considering the material.
What’s it made of?
‘Premium leather’. Which is open to interpretation, but it’ll still be nicer than skate shoe material.
This is a good explanation of what certain cobblers consider ‘premium leather’:
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Flossy 
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Premium is subjective anyway as leather like meat is diverse from animal to animal, premium is usually selected by eye and has no defects but honestly small cuts used on a shoe could easily miss certain leather defects. The only thing bumping price would be the amount of time spent on it.
It’s the same with wood for guitars.
Not sure about that. You’re not getting premium leather from the animals down the local petting zoo, and it depends massively how it’s cured, stored and cut. Different parts of the animal will have aged differently so, then different parts of that leather will have different qualities.
A chrome tan vs. a vegetable tan is massively different.
Exactly, the time spent on it. Before that what makes a certain animal better than another? it’s usually because it’s more exotic and harder to get hold of where it’s made.
Our common as fuck cows are probably exotic to other countries.
But as I said previously ^^^ they look soooft, so you can actually see that they have spent time on them so i’m not surprised by the price.
That leather looks like it’d rip pretty easily to me, not that I’ll be spending 140 on them anyway.
