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| Shopping for Sneakers |
Best places in the world to shop for sneakers
- Tokyo
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Mekka for shopaholics no matter what you want to buy and sneakers are no exception. Also the Japanese are very demanding shoppers and they have extremely good taste in sneakers. So they have everything, it's often cheaper than Europe and you can bet they will have every model in every available color that we in the west might see in catalogues but never in the shop. They also have a huge selection in second hand rarities but be prepared to pay top yen!
- Hong Kong
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They have everything here. They have streets in Hong Kong with hundreds of shoe shops, there is a street nick named Sneaker Street. I'm not kidding. It's paradise. But don't expect to make a bargain, except on last year's models.
- Seoul
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They make them around here and it's cheap but shops are harder to find than in HK.
- London
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Is a lot better than it used to be. Some stores, for example the excellent J.D. Sports on Oxford Street, have a much better selection than a lot of NY outlets.
- Nairobi
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Hard Core Old School afficionados will find what they're looking for in Nairobi's second hand-stalls.
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Find a bunch of corporate and personal sites as well as other resourses at my,
Sneaker Links
Buy and sell through the Sneaker Nation BBS
On-line shopping
Eastbay,
Footlocker,
Footaction
1. First, some really good advice to shop attendants
Please don't ask if you can help me. I know you mean well but if I needed help I
would holler, I would seek eye contact, I would look helpless. When I'm shopping
for sneakers I need to be very focused. And please don't ask me if I am looking
for something in particular. I don't know what I'm looking for until I see it.
Then I'll know and I will tell you.
Second I have to say that I am not at all impressed that woman get the best choises in sneakers. That companies just do not make the cool shoes in men's sizes AAAARRRGGGHH
TorontoIs pretty alright but every thing is spread out in the town of 5 million people and it can take a while to find the good places. Some day soonish I will make a list of my favorite places in Toronto to shop for sneakers.
Vamos para shopping sneakers in Mexico - check it out!
Is Niketown overrated
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© Ragnar Torfason
2005 June 28 |