To be appalled by these trainers

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The price tag is almost irrelevant. These are new trainers made to look old and battered. Fair enough. We see this with distressed jeans. But tape. Tape would only ever be used by someone experiencing abject poverty on a medium to long term basis.

I have been homeless. I know what the depths of poverty feel like, and what life needs to be in order to have no choice but to tape up your trainers so you can keep wearing them.

I'm appalled.

YANBU
The emperor's new clothes!

In the nicest possible way - do you think you might be overthinking this a bit?

At uni we all held our old battered chucks together with rubber bands. It was fashion, nothing more to it.

To be appalled about them is ridiculous. They’re not mocking people.

Yanbu to think they’re the ugliest shoes ever though

Finally! I have shoes under the stairs worth money!

I honestly havent laughed so much since i saw that thread on very expensive shoes that essentially broke after one normal wear (was gutted for the op in that case though!)

I think you need to sit down and watch zoolander for a bit of perspective (warning: it might send you into a permanently offended orbit)

YANBU, very tasteless. I find anything khaki a bit crass too.

It's ok to 'overthink' style statements/anything artistic - that's the point!

People on mn are so literal

Op, I agree. They're horrible. It's like the designers playing a joke and seeing how many idiots will buy them.

£530 a bargain

Actually I don't you're wrong.

It's making a mark of abject poverty into a fashion statement which I think is actually quite disturbing.

It's very zoolander and its homeless chic collection.

Wow. Looks like I'm in fashion then . I did this very thing on Tuesday and have been wondering how I'm going to go into town to get new shoes with them in their current state. I will hold my head high and strut my stuff

They're not for me, but then neither are pre ripped, muddied jeans and holey t-shirts. I find it a bit distasteful, like dressing up as a poor person.

Don't be daft. They are ugly as sin, but that's the long and the short of it.

Yanbu, I remember a post years later from Regretsy (website since closed down) that caused quite the furore about a "hobo wedding".

The upshot being, other people's abject misery and poverty should not be used for entertainment.

I think the trainers are grim.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/08/hobo-wedding-depression-era

Im not a fan of golden goose. Lots are. Their whole brand is shoes made to look destressed. Surely this is just the same?