Reps after 6 months / 1 year / 4 years
Dear fellow repfams,
Take care of your shoes - even though they’re reps!
I am wearing them nearly every single day, basically my weeks rotation. I clean them after they get too dirty and I use either cardboard shoetrees (or whatever they’re called) or just newspaper. Basic shoetrees will also do their job to maintain the shape.
My mauves look really beat on the upper but that’s because I actually use them as beaters.
Even though they are reps, they cost you money and with a little care you can expand their life.
Static’s: 6 months ( 99Yuan) Waverunner and mauve : 1 and a half years ( 85$/pair) 350 coppers : nearly 4 years (120$ bought over dhgate)
I uploaded them on Imgur: rotation
W2C just in case: I bought my yeezy static 700 from 158sir weidian, will post in comments.
Yeezy 700 Waverunner and Mauve from taylorstore (WhatsApp +8618149566728)
Yeezy 350 Copper from JessieYeezy (nearly 4 years ago!) will Post the link in comments.
Posted Feb 26, 2020, 11:32 PM UTC
This man is a legend. 4 years in the repfam, he’s about to graduate :,(
Jk, nice post man. Love to see people that actual take care of their shoes instead of beating em to rags. I have retail converse/vans/supras from about 4 years back and people still ask me if they’re new. I don’t get how people will buy a retail pair of shoes every other month for 200bucks and beat the fuck out of em so that they have to buy another pair, it makes me sad. Everyone has an hour every two weeks to do a proper cleaning of all their shoes, but no one does. Twice a month is still probably too often, I do once a month and I’ve only got some water discoloring on the suede. Looks like ur mauves have a bit of discoloration as well, I suggest getting a suede water protection spray. I paid 6 bucks for mine at Walmart and haven’t had a spot on my shoes since, with rain/snow/puddles. It’s like hydrophobic or something, the brand I bought was kiwi but I’m sure they all do the same thing.
Does anyone know where I can get decent shoe trees? I have a couple wooden ones for my dress shoes and low top leather shoes, but I want those plastic ones with the spring in the middle that fit any size/shape sneaker. Trying to get a pack of 5+ but I can’t find anywhere besides amazon.
Those coppers were actually my first ever pair of reps! If I think back nostalgia hits me though. I remember I thought they were real! 😂
You’re right, I don’t understand it either. Take care of your stuff and it will last longer, plus you can have a nice collection after a while.
You should check out ikea for shoetrees or even eBay. Heard they’re going for cheap on AliExpress/dhgate too.
And thanks for the advice for my mauves ! Will see what I can do
I didn’t get into reps until last year, but I’ve probably bought fake stuff from thrift stores and swap meets without realizing too lol.
I’ll check Ali and dhgate out, I want to do the ikea floating shelf shoe collection thing eventually so I’ve looked, but ikea’s shoe trees are kinda marked up and I’m too stubborn to pay more for the same functionality.
Dude the spray’s a life changer. If you ever plan to get a mostly suede shoe it’s almost a necessity, I have 3 of them for my boots haha
Look up Angelus Shoe Trees, you can buy more than 5 on their website and its cheaper than Amazon to buy direct
I’ll check em out thanks!