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VERY weird. Didn’t these used to go for over a G? This thing was a hyperstrike, 24 pairs. Now look at them. Still a good look for Ramones sexpunks in bands though. nh

A long long time ago, before I participated in a little thing called the morning commute, before the rat race, wool pants, my iron, lunch in bags, and bags under my eyes was a little thing I like to call the early mid 00’s. Back then things were a little tiny bit different. People that weren’t hot girls thought Pharell was cool, no one knew how to dress or listen to music, and no one was on the internet. These shoes were also pretty big.. the SB Paris was a Dunk released concurrently in one city, with others in other metropoli (Tokyo’s - legitimately chill, NY the wackest yet, London, Karachi, etc). Each had a theme, this one’s theme was oils by Chagall, or scarves. Each Paris Dunk’s toebox was different and if placed end to (on) end they would form a sort of Voltron super Guernica e8, sonning everyone who dared walk into your loft.

Somehow though, everything about this shoe has materialised itself into the current era. People think they wear sneakers. They don’t; they wear Dunks. Half the skinny, skinny people who were wearing Dunks two years ago are now rocking $200 prospector Henleys diaper jeans and Gene Wilder dancing boots. They do this while listening to David Bowie, Joy D, etc. I guess this is why they have rattails and why I am not confused.

But I will bet you two slices of Chacho’s pie that the fall 2010 issue of Arena + Homme magazine will have a longer article about custom Dunks than it did this season or next season or two seasons ago etc. The Paris Dunk is the perfect epitome of this. It is limited, it is expensive, it is haute pretension, but it is still corny as hell. Anyone who rocks these and passes me by I promise you I will turn my head to make you feel better and believe me, I’ll mean it. But only Travis Barker would wear these with a suit or out for coffee. I might have said earlier that everyone’s a head.. but if you look around for even a minute you’ll see this isn’t the case. Whatever though its all gravey .. I wore C-Corns to the gym and they smell like a dog washing a dog. Its all good.. this shoe is not as cool as the Tokyo Dunk, but a lot flyer. Still a good buy.

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Forbes… whatever happened to this shoe? What ever happened to SB’s? I feel like things have changed a lot in the last few years, and this whole thing is an ill bellwether. Floorpunch played a Breakdown song last sunday and no one knew it. People wear those weird new SBs everywhere with jeans skinnier than 2 sticks… I’d rather see my pizza on the floor than SB’s on my feet but I’d be a liar if I said I wouldn’t lay down for this shoe. This is still an unattainable shoe. I’ve had friends and well wishers rock some first series SBs, I’ve had some rare Jordans on my feet, and I know a guy called Jay Bil, but Forbes, probably only Forbes, and maybe Denims, are the Grace Kelly of Nike Dunks. Though I don’t think you see em unless you either work in Royal Elastics’ office or live in LA and like to go get lunch.

These shoes’ prices keep rising to the point that they’re unwearable. I’ll wear a pair of DS blacktoes to a black label society concert, but you wear these and theyre still Dunks. Theyre still being rocked here there and everywhere. But at the same time.. these are so fly dude. So much cooler than the Unforbes, too. Some guy in my italian politics class rocked the Unforbes on the regular, and thats my opinion.

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