Cool trainers! Do I sound like Alan Partridge ?

[CharizMa]

Mint Velvet and Hush both have a pair that are ok, but I want something a little edgier.

love these but the price confuses me a lot so i won't buy this pair!!!

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Hello, this thread is a little old and the links are out of date. Take a look at this handy page for a round up of Mumsnetters' favourite trainers.

Golden goose in real life are nothing like converse, sorry. They are comfortable leather lined cool trainers, converse are mumsy, and canvas, uncomfy imho too. Jimmy choo trainers are also nice. As for stan smiths there abit done now.

ABuck, cross post not replying to you, replying to upthread who said GG copied converse.

That article @CheapSausagesAndSpam is from 2004.... it's hardly recent. I love my Gola sneakers and they look funky as F.
Pony sneakers are also cool

I'm 40 if that matters. Stay away from converse and superga they scream mum trying to be cool. This with bells on!

"I'm 40 if that matters. Stay away from converse and superga they scream mum trying to be cool."
I mean this ^ with bells on!

Madbengalmum, yeah I realised. I think she has a point though TBH, they have taken the converse idea and made it a more aspirational trainer I guess. I think I like the idea that you don’t really see others in them, yes they are ubiquitous on insta, but day to day I’ve yet to see another person wearing any.

leather converse linking for my own ease

carvela blush leather trainer

onitsuka ecru suede trainer

onitsuka pale ecru with blue markings on side

had these in black and they were SO comfortable

I like the 70s vibe from Gola trainers as well!

Ok nowhere near making a decision but I really like these ones.

Might think about it for a day or two, but I can imagine wearing these with jeans just above the ankle and not feeling like I've got it badly wrong

What works for other people mightn't look right on me. I like that they'd look ok in winter but good with paler summer clothes too. Maybe.

There's a pair of onitsuka beige suede trainers for 30 pounds on the office website !

One of the reviewers says that onitsuka tiger trainers are sized small.

Oh I really like those last ones you posted OP. Might have to look at those as well. Am 43 in a few months and fear I may be too long in the tooth for trainers but in the last few years I am really drawn to them (might have something to do with the 3yr old!)

There are some golden goose trainers for around half price on Amazon, whilst you look have a sneaky peak at the irregular choice ones. Can't paste a link on my tablet

InStyle's view from a couple of weeks ago <a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=amp.instyle.co.uk/fashion/editors-picks/best-trainers&ved=2ahUKEwiDp-SSmefYAhWHCcAKHRuAAWIQFjAMegQIEhAB&usg=AOvVaw0pIVEli_Y9-90h0EdgDzIQ&ampcf=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here. You'll notice the Golas .

I'm guessing you still haven't actually read the post you say you're responding to, megansonstop.

FYI - Converse have been making shoes since 1908. I'm pretty sure none of the brands you listed as pre-Converse even existed, then!

The particular white leather Converse I linked to are neither canvas nor mumsy.
Presumably, the reason the OP likes them so much is because they are so similar to the derivative GG ones.

I've no idea who Celine is, but I'd be very surprised if they had white leather trainers on the catwalk any time before 1908...

Oops, just realised that I was partly replying to madbengalmum, too.

Am I seriously the only one here not able to see how one of these shoes is 'cool' but the other is 'mumsy, uncomfortable and screams try-hard?'

Or to think that the modern, fashion shoe was likely influenced by the much earlier, iconic one.

Am I just so uncool that I'm missing the point?

I genuinely don’t see why converse are mumsy

I’ve worn them since my teens and I’m 38 now. Not that I’m saying I’m not mumsy (although I hope I’m not!) ..:but I see loads of women of all ages looking good in them, they go with everything

(Also as an aside, why isn’t there a “Dadsy” 🤔 ie why is it only being basically described as looking like a mum is negative .... there’s no word for looking like a Dad

I don't care which came FIRST but unfortunately I prefer the expensive ones!

I know, OP - just responding to those posters who have stated that the Converse I linked to are incomparable to the GG ones.

Unfortunately, I am also drawn to the most expensive versions of everything. Unfortunate, as I'm piss-poor.

I really really want golden goose trainers but do not have the funds. I don't think any of the others look any where as nice sorry 😐

Am I seriously the only one here not able to see how one of these shoes is 'cool' but the other is 'mumsy, uncomfortable and screams try-hard?'

Or to think that the modern, fashion shoe was likely influenced by the much earlier, iconic one.

Am I just so uncool that I'm missing the point?

Me too!!

It's completely baffling. But amazingly so..... That posters can't see it.

Also why on earth is a woman who wears converse or superga or whatever else to be sneered at for trying too hard.

Surely spending £00s on a copy style is trying too hard.

Mockney I agree.

Op asked for edgy trainers. Loads of trianers on here are lovely, or very fashionable, but certainly not edgy. I don't think anything costing £300 can be described as edgy.

I guess I would look at it this way - what would actually edgy people doing avant garde, edgy things (oh I don't know...countercultural icons, punk bands, artist, intellectuals...whatever) be wearing? They would wear the most affordable and ubiquitious trainer because they don't really care.

The only trainers I've ever seen on on such people is Converse or Vans.

Adidas and Nike no matter how lovely, just do not carry the same 'edgy' conotations to me. They became massively popular after Phoebe Philo, LIly Allen, Rita Ora and whoever else started wearing them and suddenly trainers are high fashion and/or mainstream.

And yes, I also think that loads of trainers shown here are emulating old school Converse.

Can I just ask if anyone has recently bought Gazelles without the plastic tongue on them?

[[https://www.gola.co.uk/womens-orchid-super-metallic-trainer-p1942 I just bought these and with a discount code of aw17extra20 they were 18 pounds

I'm doubting my sanity now. Will they be baby size five?!

They aren't the trainers of my dreams and I don't suppose they are fashionable but I want to see how I get on with wearing pale trainers and what I have that goes with pale trainers while I become a trainer expert in the next month.