"every single sneaker forum", LOL!!! i'm on 2 whole sneaker sites. and yeah, i know, i'm insulted about my style (tho not as much over on iss for some reason lately, i mostly get compliments on my fits over there now), because it's different. i take pride in that. i defend it sometimes because unlike others, i'm not gonna fall in line and change my whole style to be accepted on a stupid intraweb forum.
take a look at the am fam thread, look at it early on and you'll see some of it's most senior members with their tongues out, but now, most of them wear their jeans over the tongues. is it just cuz they're a tiny bit older now and that's mostly a younger people thing? LOL... no! it's my opinion it's because they conformed because that is the norm around here (and they saw it on here so much it made 'em feel like it looked better, even if they didn't really think so themselves, they just rolled with it). i'm not having a mid-life crisis because of how i wear my shoes, LOL! are you freaking kidding me? how far you gonna reach? i'm only 30 and i'm a professional DJ, of course i'm gonna dress how i want, even if it's not all grown and sophisticated all the time. i've been wearing my shoes and jeans like this for years, it has nothing to do with me being older now. even when i wore baggier jeans i had the tongue out. it's called having your style and rolling with it (you can change it if it you genuinely think it looks better, but don't do it because you want to fit in). just because i'm getting a lil' older doesn't mean all of the sudden i have to tuck my tongues behind my jeans and stop wearing gear i think is fresh. i mean, i wear some grown up stuff here and there, but for the most part i'm still a kid at heart, and love my style, no matter what anyone says.
someone was insulting jay-z in the celebrities wearing heat thread a few weeks ago, sayin' "how's jay-z gonna be 40 dressing like he's 22?" ninjahood said something i couldn't agree with more, he simply said:
"culture > age"...
that's right. the way i came up, the style i took on and developed, it's a part of me now, and i'ma rock it 'til the wheels fall off... i'll love shoes and clothes 'til i'm as old as dirt probably. shiiiiiz, i'll be the freshest old man you've ever seen (i mean, i'm sure i'll change some, but i doubt my love of shoes and gear will die completely, and i doubt i'll be dressing like most of these old retired dudes you see)...