New Balance
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Since it's gonna hot as balls soon, I went ahead and started gearing up for it.
And thanks to Lando for the discount on these.
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Nice thread, a lot of nice kicks in here.
998, 577, 576, 1500, all good
This is my favorite right here, New Balance 1500 IB "Centenary Edition":
And my girls AM 87
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For all you European heads and 576 fans, you should be checking out the New Balance 576 Road to London pack. There is a black one and grey one. Both have gum soles, waxed suede and nylon construction. Personally, I only like Made in England NBs. Some of the limited releases (like these) use bespoke type materials (ie leathers, textiles, etc). They are available at End Clothing and any other awesome sneaker shop in Europe. I almost bought these yesterday, but I noticed Bosstalk with the green and grey blue IHSH-46s, I may need both..
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Personally, I only like Made in England NBs.
??? IMO if you were to rank the quality of recent new balance trainers down to where they were made it would go something like:
(best)
1.Japan
2.America
3.China
4.UK
(worst)
I had two pairs of the 576 from Flimby (which in all fairness I won in a competition of about 15 pairs so maybe it was too much hassle to throw them away at "QC" and make another pair) that had a missing eyelet in a pair, glue all over the suede on all of them and when you lined them up next to eachother (one was UK10 the other UK11) you could see they used the same cutting tool for the toebox making one pair look wierd.After this incident I've kept an eye on NBUK and I have to say their quality control is fuckin' up, even the pairs on display in the shops look bad. Another thing that makes the other countries better is the shape of theirs compared to our's
I remember seeing a good thread about shape on another forum that used pictures to show how its changed , i'll try to find it.Its a shame as they used to be so good to eg:
This post wasn't intended to be a personal assault on you for liking NBUK I was just trying to show how bad they've gotten recently.
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Dude, please show me a NB tag that says Made in Japan. I'm pretty sure most Japanese only releases are made in China, Vietnam or the Phillipines. Made in England NBs are also pretty close to handmade. There are a lot of B grades that make it out of the plant, but they are clearly marked because the tag on the inside is totally different. Sounds like you got some free B grades. Please never rank China made above English made, it's just wrong.
Probs buying... Cheers for the heads up... But if you know of another online store that carries these... Sz 8 already gone at End...