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
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Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
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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.
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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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I wouldn't expect any sneaker to be repairable. I switched to OnCloud and love them, Hoka is another solid brand.
For repairable shoes, leather Goodyear welt is where to start. Best entry level brand is Thursday Boot company, but Redwing is super popular too.
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I don't repair shoes, but I work in a place that sells them and I know exactly what you mean. They're shit. Adidas are the better of the big 2 brands.
How does Puma rate in comparison?
IMO Puma do the best quality gear out of the major sportswear brands, and they're usually amongst the cheapest. I find most of their shoes a bit ugly, but I do like the Palermos.
Pumas last forever in my experience.
I also like to get them over Adidas since that was the one of the two brothers who was not a literal Nazi
Anecdotal, but I just replaced my favorite pair of Pumas, which were at least 12 years old. Granted I didn't wear them every single day, but at least 2 or 3 days a week for 12 years is pretty good in my book. I've had to replace Adidas sooner than that with less wear, but they still last pretty long and I'll confidently buy both brands. I'd never buy Nike (and wouldn't wear most Nikes either honestly, just not my personal taste in style)
For some reference, here's a picture of maybe 2/3 of my shoes, many of which are Pumas. There's also a couple pairs of Keds in there, but they're more recent and I don't know yet how they hold up long term comparatively
Hey, I am also a fan of rotating my shoes. They do seem to last longer that way and are more useful over a longer period of time. I still have Pumas from years ago. They start as my indoor workout shoes, then they are the outdoor casuals, then outdoor workers. I move them to dirtier duty over time. My oldest pair (~15yrs) are on dog-poop duty and now never come inside, but they are about to retire permanently. The hole in the side is now letting in too much moisture so my sock gets soaked. They've been good pooper troopers!
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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.
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Nikes - made for children by children.
I can't boycott no harder, we haven't purchased a name brand in weeks!
Oh look, yet another example of why we should tax wealth and not work.
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.
"National Bestseller"
Only because the publisher astroterfed sales by ordering thousands of copies of their own book. I doubt anyone who would believe this hysterical bullshit is much of reader.
Ew what is that font? Gross.
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Yep, they were the wokiest of the woke before woke was woke.
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
Not just the old ones, many of them in the administration look super strange with even weirder views.
One looks like they fought a lawnmower at a barbershop and lost, another looks like a fanfic witch from The Matrix, several of them look like cast members from The Witch (movie), others have...odd features that make them look like WW2 villains or slightly methed out. And all of them are batshit insane.
You can't even find people like that in a big city.
Because otherwise there would be a small risk that money would go to taxes instead and help people who need it.
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Nazi.
MFW I don't buy Nike shit anyway
This is the guy who invented asian labor exploitation and hid it behind Michael Jordan.
He looks exactly how you would think.
I resolved never to buy or wear Nike back in the late 90s. The companies practices are abominable but I also hated the culture of conspicuous consumption and the way people believed it gave them license to shit on others for not turning themselves into a walking ad. I grew up poor, so I know the feeling of being made to feel less-than because I got Pro Wings on instead of Jordans.
Bribe. That's called a bribe. Also in an actual developed world, it would be called blatant corruption and treasonous.
Doesn't sound like a donation. More like buying into politics to shape the Country in a way they want it. Democracy is broken
Fuck Nike
Boycott
Just don't do it.
Havent bought Nikes in awhile. Sadly, kids are still under the impression they are worth something. So you have to fight the brand building at a young age
Bruh, I remember a few years ago (before covid) in my deep blue city public school, kids would make fun of you if your wear shoes that aren't nikes, especially like no name brand shoes or even sketchers.
Like wtf. Its highschool, so immature...
Some kids even got "designer" shoes or whatever for $500-$1000, like... the fuck?!?
Its shoes... 🤦♂️
Ugh, kids these days.
How does he go from this:
to supporting Trump and Oregon republicans?
It does not compute
Corporations are psychopaths. They don't want you to be a republican, they just want your money to become more powerful. They say whatever you want to hear to get it.
Phil was no longer directly involved with the company when this ad campaign came out.
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Just Boycott
BOYCOTT CAPITALISM
Welp, won't be hard for me to buy Nike shoes ever again. Is uhhh the Adidas founder just as shit too or can I buy those or Puma? I just want some low profile shoes like converse, but that you can actually walk around in all day. I used to wear converse, but those killed my feet and def aren't shoes for winter either lol.
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Evil really makes you look like a corroded ballsack
Yeah, f-him and I have not purchased a Nike product in over 20 years. Onitsuka, Asics, Brooks, Astra and Puma are the ones I choose from.
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