Nikes are bar none the worst shoes people try to have me repair. They are made from shitty criminally overpriced plastic and foam that decomposes and falls apart in the box let alone after someone wears them
What shoes do you recommend? Looking to get a new pair soon.
From my point of view athletic shoes aren’t really a thing that can be effectively repaired because even the nice ones use plastics that aren’t easy to work with after they’ve been worn. I can usually do something but its sentiment that keeps them going not quality. But really the lesson I try to teach people is to not give a fuck about the name on the shoe. It vastly more important to know how a shoe is supposed to fit on your foot and that it feels comfortable long term.
Edit: I will add a few names to avoid pretty much entirely though. Post-1988 Cole Haan (owned by Nike), Louis Vuitton and Ecco
To elaborate on the “go for the fit, not the name”, there’s a common belief that shoes need some time to break in before they feel comfortable. This is only true if you get shoes that don’t really fit your foot. There’s more to feet variations than just the length. I learned that the first time I got lucky and one of the few shoes I was trying on in my mad dash to get shoes and go do something else asap fit my foot properly. It immediately made me realize that I need patience when getting shoes and to never buy a shoe that doesn’t feel great right away.
If you’re going for a designer shoe, I bet the odds of it perfectly fitting your foot are low, unless maybe you have the same foot type as Michael Jordan or whichever athlete’s name they are putting on the shoe, assuming that athlete’s foot was even part of the design at all. For all we know, they rip those shoes off as soon as the cameras aren’t watching because it was purely a marketing thing.
Why Ecco? I’ve been wearing the same pair of sneakers by them for a decade now and they’re still holding up well. Have they gotten worse in recent times?
The ones I see coming into the shop are usually about a year or two old and the soles are turning into a sticky powder-like consistency. That in and of itself isnt the problem but because the uppers are attached to the insole by a thin very exposed thread that has been melted into the now crumbling sole I can’t remove enough of the old material to get any suitable adhesives to stick without cutting that structurally fundamental stitch.
The sneakers might hold up better but must just not hold up well enough for folks to bring them to me
Good to know. I have a pair I bought early this year and have been wearing them almost daily. If they come apart in that time frame, that’s gonna suck, because they weren’t cheap.
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Disappointing to hear. They’ve been my go-to for years. I have a pair I bought this year and wear almost daily.
The chemicals that went into making plastics and related polymeric materials last longer and be more flexible were found to be horrible for people and the environment. Basically a long list of cancer causing forever chems.
I have a pair of redwings I’ve had repaired 3x over the last 14 years. They’re expensive, but worth adding to the list.
No one is cross shopping Nike sneakers and red wing boots. That’s apples to oranges.
Lemmy try not to give incredibly out of touch fashion advice challenge: impossible
About once every few weeks, I’ll go visit my local blacksmith and he’ll nail a new pair of pair of shoes right on to my giant toenail. Or maybe he repairs the old ones. I’m not too sure, he doesn’t really tell me much. He just stands in places that make it really hard to kick him, and I only really wanted to do that the first time because I thought he was trying to steal my feet.
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Solomon are hands down my favorite shoe brand. The perfect blend of comfort and ruggedness.
At least when it comes to running shoes, I’m of the opinion that the shoe chooses you. Go to a running store and try on a few brands, find the one that feels the best. Buy one pair from that store; every subsequent time you buy running shoes you know the band and model and can buy it wherever is cheaper.
Nikes - made for children by children.
Huh, I would have never thought to ask about most mass produced shoes. I guess my redwing boots are fairly mass produced, and ive gotten those resolved, but even my merril boots I dont think of as being repairable.
I used to work as a bike mechanic in my teens, and it was pretty standard for shops to have a ‘no department store’ policy for repairs. We’d chance a tube, but trying true a wheel, or properly set breaks and gear on those soft metal, low presicision components just wasnt worth it.
I won’t say it’ll always be a good looking repair but it’ll be functional. Always worth it to let one of us take a look
I have never had shoes that fit my feet. Ever.
How hard/expensive would it realistically be to design and build/have built my own shoes?
$500-2000 depends on what sort of shoe, where you buy it and so forth. If you go to a poor country it can be had for a lot less though. It might well be worth to have that vacation and find a shoemaker. You certainly will not exploit them nearly as badly as Nike.
Ha. As if I could afford a vacation.
Oh look, yet another example of why we should tax wealth and not work.
I can’t boycott no harder, we haven’t purchased a name brand in weeks!
Republican are the ones that burned Nikes for sponsoring Colin Kaepernick…
Imagine how many copies this sold
Like, four?
They’re not well known for buying books.
Reading them, no. But fuckers love buying them and handing them out. Nothing a conservative uncle loves more than sliding a copy of Atlas Shrugged across the table and saying “Read this if you want to learn about Real Communism, kid”.
And with that, I make like John Galt and never see that uncle again.
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Ew what is that font? Gross.
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Yep, they were the wokiest of the woke before woke was woke.
Nike also did a lot of donations and promotion of the DNC before now so it is somewhat of a surprising flip. Maybe Phil Knight is acting alone in this endeavor, counter to the company itself?
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I know you said pro wings what are there any other brands you recommend? Is adidas any better? Been putting off buying new sneakers since Isreals genocide because every brand I looked at seemed to have some sort of ties.
How has that worked out, watching Nike grow and prosper despite everything shitty they do?
Are you simping for a company?
Like a pick-me girl, except putting humanity down for the attention of companies.
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He sells a running shoe. A shoe folks. Now he thinks he has the ability to shape the worlds future because of all the money he made exploiting the producers of the shoes and gouging the customers of the shoe. What a fucking stretch. What is with these “too much money” guys?
“a guy who exploits vulnerable workers in 3rd world countries to sell boujee sports wear to Americans makes a truly outrageous donation to ensure he can further inflict harm on the world without having to pay his fair share.”
Fixed the headline
Of course a sweat-shop owner is a republican.
Why are old republicans so fucking weird looking.
While Knight is generally reluctant to give interviews, he spoke with the New York Times in October 2022 regarding his support for Republican candidates. He argued Oregon’s government had drifted too far to the left and described himself as “more conservative than Nike,” responding to criticism of him backing an anti-abortion candidate which apparently contrasted with the company’s image of supporting progressive social justice causes.[109] Nike itself donated $75,000 to Drazan and Johnson’s Democratic opponent, Tina Kotek, the eventual winner of the election. - WIKIPEDIA
Because otherwise there would be a small risk that money would go to taxes instead and help people who need it.
What’re you saying? You don’t think these billionaires need their money?!?
Does a dragon not need its golden hoard?
The dragon earned their hoard! Taking it away is Commie DEI!!!
I’m saying that I wonder about the rate of return of spending that much on lobbying. I’d help him safe money on that, too.
This is exactly why we shouldn’t have billionaires. It’s literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what’s left but to spend it on manipulating other people.
Nazi.
What a piece of shit
Psssttt…Nike replicas are so good now that they sometimes use medical scanning devices to try to tell them apart. They look identical down to the correct boxes, security tags, etc…
So you are saying that you need medical scanning devices to make sure that a person wearing what looks like Nikes is not a fascist.
Some people buy products without looking too closely at the politics of the manufacturer. I would say that’s how most people buy things.
We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you’re living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you’re contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another. Turn your justifiably angry energy upwards, not at your fellow working class brothers and sisters.
Do you seriously believe that anybody would be crazy enough to check other peoples clothes with a medical scanning device? Thank you.
We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you’re living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you’re contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another.
When you know that an action supports fascism you do not do it and you warn others about it. Pretending to support fasism, is at least in this case really stupid.
So Nike sells limited edition sneakers that sell for far above retail in after market sales. That’s where medical device imaging is coming in. It’s weird but no weirder than like, beanie babies were. If you didn’t know that now you do.
You also catastrophically missed the point. Getting pissy because you see somebody wearing any particular brand is pretty ridiculous. All of them are supporting the regime in one way or another, you are, simply by existing and contributing labor to society. You can’t pinpoint a fascist by their Nike’s anymore than you could pinpoint one by literally any other shoe. Unless they happen to be police tactical boots (which are often made by Under Armor).
Holy crap do I really need to use the /s behind the first comment. I thought it was so bloody obvious, that it did not need to happen. The idea to walk around town, scan people sneakers and if they are legit Nike call them fascists. To me that idea is just so insane that it is funny.
At the same time, there are companies, which are worse and it is worth boycotting them. If you do so, then stand by that and do not buy some fakes. Seriously imagine trying to convince some guy that Nike sucks, while wearing full fake Nike gear. That is again a funny idea to me.
No, I’m saying if you like the look of the shoes, but don’t want to give money to a shitty company, pirate them via illegitimate copies.
Imagine what these replica brands could achieve if they made their own stuff and people weren’t married to the brands
Again
Prohibit billionaires
Cap all netwoths at 10-20 million dollars per person, tops.
Companies should not be worth more than 1 billion dollars, cap it.
Anything over that has automatically 100% go to taxes
Well end up with -instead of one trillion dollar compant- tens of thousands of centillion dollar worth companies, you know, those that aren’t too big to fail and that won’t need bailouts
Well end up with a government that gets so much tax income that it can afford free education, free healthcare, hell, UBI even.
Noone will be super rich and or powerful ever again, no one will be able to usurp all resources for themselves.
Humanity spent 2000 years on perfecting the “0.1% must get as Uber rich as possible” and we got it down to an art to concentrate as much wealth as possible with as little people as possible. It is NOT normal, it is NOT acceptable, ajf it has to stop NOW! It’s destroying our world, literally, as these assholes are the main drivers behind climate change.
Here I am making sure to use as little water as possible and all of my life long work gets thrown into he garbage because miss multimillionaire needs to do grocery shopping with her fucking private jet.
While on this bandwagon, ban all private jets, even for politicians. Maybe maybe we can keep a few as a sort of air ambulance or something z that should be fine, but all the rest, BAN IT. Same for theega yachts, outright world wide ban.
It is bizarre to me that most people just act as if all this is perfectly fine and acceptable. There is no right, no reason why anyone should have a higher net worth than (say) 10 million, so why do we allow this to happen in the first place?
Haven’t we learned anything?
