/fa/ - Fashion

[Anonymous No.17470028]

>pretty cheap
>very durable
>sleek timeless look
>tons of colorways
why are sambas bad again?

[Anonymous No.17470105]

whats going on with the samba shilling recently?

[Anonymous No.17470110]

>>17470105
I got hired as a digital marketing intern at Adidas and this is one of my projects I'm working on

[Anonymous No.17470111]

>never for sale

what is adidas' deal? why are such a popular model never freely available like the superstars and stan smiths?

[Anonymous No.17470119]

>>17470110
Tell them to drop the fucking NMDs already, no one wears them but pajeets and laggards, if they want to be a top brand don't be something people associates with poos and clueless suburban adults.

[Anonymous No.17470120]

nobody in the states wears adidas except mexicans

[Anonymous No.17470184]

They're fine just boring

[Anonymous No.17470194]

>>17470105
Adidas released a vegan version, and to drive sales and normalise vegan sneakers they

>Handed them out to tiktok normies to wear and advertise to gullible teenagers
>Paid those "aesthetic" instagram pages to post pics of celebrities wearing them in the 90s, to advertise to gullible teenagers that are a bit older and think they're different or unique
>Paid GQ, Vice, and Vogue to all of a sudden start writing about it all at once to advertise it to young adults and millennials, who think it's "more sophisticated and sleek" than the last shoe they were told to wear, probably nike AF1's or their "timeless" common projects respectively.
>Some zoomer will reply to this as if they naturally rediscovered an "underrated gem of a classic" and aren't just wearing what they were told

[Anonymous No.17470485]

>>17470194
What the fuck is a vegan sneaker

[Anonymous No.17470500]

>>17470485
Plastic

[Anonymous No.17470511]

[Anonymous No.17470519]

>>17470120
I'm white and i wear Stan Smith's everyday

[Anonymous No.17470521]

>>17470110
I know this is fake but I'm going to pretend it's real: Please tell them to make their shoes in wide sizes, I'm begging you. I'm not fat, I'm 6'3, 215. My feet are between 12D and 12E on a brannock and Sambas are too fucking tight on me unless I size up, then they are too long.

I just want to stop having to buy New Balances. NB are ugly as sin but they fit perfectly, feel amazing and are readily available. They're the shoe equivalent of my fuck buddy in college, and I just want to move on.

[Anonymous No.17470522]

>>17470028
>pair of sambas
>loose fitting firetrap jeans
>garish coloured ralph lauren polo

This is like the uniform here in the UK to signal that you are an empty husk of a human who's only concern in life is what time the next footie match is on and whether smithsters got that coke he mentioned.

Sambas are an alright shoe, but i cant seperate them from that image.

[Anonymous No.17470546]

>>17470120
Wrong. Sambas are all over nyc rn

[Anonymous No.17470635]

>>17470105

https://youtu.be/sYPzcg7xjtA

[Anonymous No.17470705]

>>17470522
That's the Samba Super anon, an entirely different trainer. The standard Samba is actually quite uncommon in the UK. The outfit you've written is scarily familiar. I don't know the exact bloke you've seen but I've seen a thousand just like him, every one of which is trying (badly) to recapture the casual scene.

[Anonymous No.17470736]

I don't want to wear my old Sambas anymore bros...

[Anonymous No.17470819]

>>17470736
Why not

[Anonymous No.17470852]

>>17470119
NMDs rule, fag

[Anonymous No.17470858]

What's a shoe for white better than like skechers (aka not gaudy and colorful as fuck?) new balance I guess?

[Anonymous No.17470998]

Sambas are just decent and nice shoes. They're on sale every now and again if you keep an eye out or hit an outlet. My old OG sambas were seemingly invincible, wore them doing everything until the suede on the toecap actually wore down. The sheer durability of a good pair of shoes is insane. The most comfortable? No. The most fashionable? No. They're just meant to be easy utilitarian sneakers that go well enough with anything.

[Anonymous No.17471023]

>>17470194
>>Some zoomer will reply to this as if they naturally rediscovered an "underrated gem of a classic" and aren't just wearing what they were told
I've been wearing samba ogs since before they were shilled. I wear puma now because I can't fucking find ogs anywhere anymore and I'm not paying their gay $100 website price tag just to get three stripes on my shoe.

[Anonymous No.17471029]

just get indoor gazelles as adidas is pushing them and you'll get better colorways

[Anonymous No.17471108]

>>17470028
The modern ones are made of plastic, so that sucks. Also,
LONG TONGUE OR GO HOME

[Anonymous No.17471160]

what's up with them not keeping the classic colorway around

[Anonymous No.17471161]

>>17470105
>>17470194
its literally because bella hadid wore them

[Anonymous No.17471258]

>>17470028
Cheap Chinese crap

[Anonymous No.17471370]

>>17470028
Quality declined heavily already a decade ago. Escpecially the squeaking plastic tongue is annoying af. Also different Samba models were also mysterium in the past. The ones with the white label were the good ones while the blue ones were rrash and probably for children or women.

[Anonymous No.17471559]

>>17470028
>OG's never in stock

[Anonymous No.17471575]

>>17470546
you a damn liar
nothing but pandas STILL

[Anonymous No.17471588]

>>17470028
Samba is the recent meta choice for chinktok NPCs. It's a good shoe.

[Anonymous No.17471685]

how about these?

[Anonymous No.17471687]

>>17471685
fuck no

[Anonymous No.17471702]

>>17470194
>underrated gem
>from a megacorp
are zoomers really this dumb?

[Anonymous No.17471707]

>>17470028
>why are sambas bad
sneakers = plebswear

[Anonymous No.17471709]

>>17471687
and why fuck no?

[Anonymous No.17471750]

u can't wear them with jeans

[Anonymous No.17471766]

>>17471575
I'm in NYC right now and I see sambas everyday.

[Anonymous No.17471790]

>>17470194
damn I want to stop wearing them now

[Anonymous No.17471810]

It's sad but as usual the wrong people (American hype-chasing mouthbreathers) have got to them and now like every shoe in the past 5 years they'll get super popular with shitty people. Hopefully Adidas has a bit more sense than Nike though and doesn't just do shitty collaborations with gay brands and release them as 'limited collections' or some shit for the drooling hype retards to clamour for.

[Anonymous No.17471961]

>>17470028
because its in, if you want to be different but similiar style get a handball special.
t. wore specials for 5 years and then sambas for 10, now neither

[Anonymous No.17471972]

>makes you look like a russian

Pass

[Anonymous No.17472072]

Sup bros

[Anonymous No.17472080]

>>17472072
Cute

[Anonymous No.17472089]

>>17472080
W-What's going on here??

[Anonymous No.17472199]

>>17470028
That Wales Bonner collab made a TON of "fashionable" people interested in them. Also Bella Hadid wore them for like a month straight.

I'm waiting for these to come to Canada otherwise I'll have to get them shipped from the UK. idk why we never get most colourways here, its bullshit

[Anonymous No.17472483]

>>17471685
these are better

[Anonymous No.17472526]

tiny toe box. gotta let your puppies breathe.

[Anonymous No.17472535]

>>17472483
I fell in love with the silhouette ever since I saw them the first time as a kid.
I got the navy ones a few years ago and the quality is just poor. the color went to shit even if I took care of them regularly. The suede literally just gave up.

[Anonymous No.17472557]

>>17472199
europe gets all the good colorways and asia gets the obscure nice silhouettes.

[Anonymous No.17472562]

I need these for my meme shoe collection.

[Anonymous No.17472569]

>>17472562
unironically better than wales bonner sambas

[Anonymous No.17472685]

>>17472199
Adidas is a european brand, so of course europeans get preferential treatment

[Anonymous No.17472736]

>>17472685
I'm not noticing that. In Germany we never really get any cool special editions.

[Anonymous No.17472739]

>>17470194
I wish all journos a merry unemployment check

[Anonymous No.17472742]

>>17472736
Probably because the Samba is just the genreic working class shoe and never seen as anything fancy.

[Anonymous No.17472751]

this sold out in seconds

[Anonymous No.17473145]

Honestly, adidas > nike

[Anonymous No.17473324]

>>17473145
For me nb and adidas are equal maybe nb has a better catalog right now but sambas and the like are the best

[Anonymous No.17473336]

>>17470194
I've been wearing sambas and spezials since early 2010s because they've always been big with football hooligan and ultra scene.

>>17472483
Spezial are the best but that color sucks.

[Anonymous No.17473357]

>>17472742
Yea that's probably true. That didn't stop these hucksters from doubling the price over the last couple of years though.

[Anonymous No.17473363]

>bought my last spezial in 2013 for around 60€
>check adidas store
>120€
lmao wtf

[Anonymous No.17473425]

>>17470522
The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in!

[Anonymous No.17473429]

>>17472562
Gf has the Sporty and Rich while I have the Wales Bonner (i have red though) and hers have held up much better. The material on the Sporty snd Rich are better, and iirc the Wales Bonners were more expensive by $20.
>>17473145
True. The best nikes are AF and i’d rather rock bapestars over memeforces.
>>17473363
It’s fucking criminal.
>>17472751
>Have a colorway that looks like the classic colorway
>upcharge because they are Muh HuMaNrAcE!
>profit
This shit is retarded. This is how adidas gets their cut because they realize no one will pay €160 for regular sambas. Sambas should be priced at €65-80 ffs. I guess they have to recover from the Ye losses

[Anonymous No.17473770]