Well, you started this by saying "No offence", but it seems you're offended and even angered by my personal decisions. How am I hurting you by choosing to wear my shoes later? I guess you are wearing your Panda Dunks during the Pandademic and are upset about that?
My point that you care too much about what other people think and wear still stands.
No. If I cared what other people wear, I'd do what everyone else is doing and wear Dunks to fit in. This is basic psychology. Wearing things that 99.99% of the people you walk by on the sidewalk aren't aware of isn't caring what other people think and wear.
Most people don’t just have a random empty room, that’s kinda odd.
You're just looking for any random piece of what I said that is much ado about nothing to pick apart and turn into an issue. Massively immature.
No, streetwear was counter culture and not showing up to the function looking like everyone else. I've provided a source from people who architected it. You can find countless OGs who parrot the same perspective. Because it's literally what it was. People weren't importing Stussy in 1981 to look like everyone else and it surely wasn't this kumbaya e x p r e s s i o n BS. Like, that's just a fact. It was having something that others didn't have. Because scarcity = value. When someone wore Supreme 15 years ago, it said something about them. You knew this person had good taste in art, punk rock, jazz, etc., but more importantly, this person was probably up on things you weren't. And likewise for yourself if you had the knowledge to know what Supreme was in 2007. Now? When you see someone wearing Supreme, it says nothing about them. They probably just listen to Travis Scott and every characteristic about them is predictable and definable.
Now, it's Gen Z and young millennials who lack confidence and wear Supreme and Dunks to fit in and get validation from their peers. Everyone is a follower and the companies are the leaders. The culture used to drive the product, now the product drives the "culture" (there no longer is a culture).
Trends literally don't "authentically represent" anyone. That's the opposite of a trend. Your average r/sneakers user who coincidentally went from wearing Jordan 1s every day to Dunks isn't wearing them to "authentically represent" themselves. That's not how human psychology works. Trends are trends because everyone everyone is on trend. So, if that's the macro, then how does this authentically represent the micro? I mean, if the authentic representation of someone is painful averageness and 0 individuality, then I guess so, but that's sad.
Everyone’s too worried about what other people think and wear
Which is why they wear things to fit in. You think you're talking about me, but you're really talking about everyone who is coincidentally wearing Dunks right now.
to wear your $400+ shoes because they’re not at the bleeding edge of what’s hot or 5+ years down the line
Do you think I've stashed away 2 pairs of Stussy Converse, 5 pairs of Air Kukini's, 2 pairs of Hello Kitty Prestos, and 4 pairs of Teddy Santis 990v3s because I think they'll be the "bleeding edge of what's hot" in the second half of this decade? Does that make any sense to you? When has that ever been the case? Your fingers are moving faster than your brain. You're not thinking when you're typing and it's because your emotional anger is taking over your thoughts - clouding your rationality. I hold off on wearing shoes because they'll be forgotten in 5+ years. That's the whole point. The Acronym Prestos from 6 years ago I unDS'd the other day aren't the "bleeding edge of what's hot" right now. Think. Just stop and think.
It’s just a sad state of affairs imo.
You're telling me I'm sad when you're genuinely heated over my personal decisions that has no impact on anyone else. You're overly invested in my decisions that affect nobody else. Yes, tell us about "sad". You would know.
but in my opinion that seems exhausting.
This is a claim without supporting evidence. I told you that ordering shoes online and throwing the box into a empty room requires no "effort" and you've never rebuked this, but rather provided the claim again that is strangely still missing any supporting evidence. If you did this on an essay, what grade do you think you'd get?
Also, why are you downvoting me?