Trainers.

[Marilyn Manson]

Does anyone know where I could buy some good trainers relatively cheaply? I just went in schuh today, and they were selling them for nearly seventy pounds! Outrageous.

[KoeN]

you shouldn't wear trainers before may.
this go for all of you ignorant brits btw, wearing trainers all year long...;/

[Marilyn Manson]

I have hardly worn any trainers in my life up to this point.

I don't intend to start wearing them all day, that kind of nonsense.

[LHC]

Any cheap shop that sells trainers? Or a sports shop?

[Yahwe]

Originally Posted by KoeN

you shouldn't wear trainers before may.

and you shouldn't wear a straw hat in london until after goodwood

[Marilyn Manson]

I do want some reasonably good ones, though.

It is the age-old problem of low price, high quality.

[LHC]

I think most trainers >£25 have the same basic quality; they are hardly produced with the aristocracy in mind.

[roadrunner_0]

go to TK maxx, its across the road from schuh anyway, you can get some good trainers there for cheap usually (for anyone who wants to dispute this, i got a pair of acupuncture trainers from there for £20 when the rrp was about £100 \o/)

alternativly, there is a shop just opened up in the metro centre which sells cheap shoes, although i cant remember the damn name :/

[ceres]

Buy one good(expensive) pair and make them last.
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WEB SHOWS

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

go to TK maxx, its across the road from schuh anyway, you can get some good trainers there for cheap usually (for anyone who wants to dispute this, i got a pair of acupuncture trainers from there for £20 when the rrp was about £100 \o/)

alternativly, there is a shop just opened up in the metro centre which sells cheap shoes, although i cant remember the damn name :/

I'll try this then!

[meglamaniac]

Don't forget your burberry socks.
Oh and a pair of Adidas trackies to tuck into them, of course.

[JC]

Surely you can just go to JJB and get a pair for ~£30 unless you are looking for non sports make ones.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by JC

Surely you can just go to JJB and get a pair for ~£30 unless you are looking for non sports make ones.

I know nothing of trainers. Hence the thread.

[deerbarn]

Go to JJB get a pair of Kappa or Umbro for between twenty and thirty. Kappa ones last for friggin ages.

[JC]

I'm not exactly stylish but i buy my trainers for the gym from JJB, they always have a big selection ranging from £20 to some ridiculous amount that i'ld never consider paying.

[Boogster]

Sports Soccer stocks cheap trainers.

[furball]

Originally Posted by Boogster

Sports Soccer stocks crap trainers.

Fixed.


From an ex-JJB employee.

[Boogster]

I hoped MM was willing to sacrifice all semblence of 'style'. If so, Sports Soccer is the place to go.

[furball]

Heh. Sadly all their trainers fall apart, their staff are apalling, their stores are cramped sweat-shops and their customers are marginally worse than the chavs that inhabit JJB. The lower chav. Eeeek.

[roadrunner_0]

Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson

I know nothing of trainers. Hence the thread.

as someone who knows what kind of clothing you wear, and buys similar trainers to what (i assume) you will want, follow my advice

you wont get what you are looking for in JJB

you might in allsports, depends if they have a sale on or not

[Marilyn Manson]

I'm also going to Next to buy some clothing.

Tommorow will be very exciting, really.

[demiGOD]

what in gods name is a trainer? is that like, a pair of shorts or some kind of a sports outfit?

edit: it just dawned on me.. trainer = training shoes? i might be wrong though.. heh oh well..

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by demiGOD

what in gods name is a trainer? is that like, a pair of shorts or some kind of a sports outfit?

A trainer is a sports shoe, although it is favoured by the British underclasses as a general purpose piece of footwear. I believe the nearest equivalent you colonial types may have is called a 'sneeker.'

[demiGOD]

ah yes, the good ole sneakers... most of us colonial types will refer to them as tennis shoes also.. if your into skater shoes and "surfer" shoes.. DC and Vans all i wear, actually heh

[pig]

converse, they can be a shoe or a trainer, although after wearing mine for about 2 years, they are really falling apart :/ plus thye go with anything, before they became fashionable again i got mine for a tenner, dont know how much you would pay these days.

[Embroglio]

if you'd asked 3 days ago i could have gotten you a pair for a fiver

[onetwothree]

Originally Posted by ceres

Buy one good(expensive) pair and make them last.

This is awful advice, you should rotate throught atleast 2 pairs of shoes.

[KaneED]

Why can't you wear trainers all year round? I do not understand this not wearing trainers in the winter.

[xtrasyn]

I have only worn trainers during sportive activities, BEING CONVINCED THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSEDLY USED FOR.

I once saw a guy in a two-piece with black trainers. Two days later Bush was elected president for the first time. Go figure.

[Marilyn Manson]

Just been into the town, and TK Maxx is not opposite Schuh, and thus Roady is a villan and a proven dastard.

[Stew]

Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson

Just been into the town, and TK Maxx is not opposite Schuh, and thus Roady is a villan and a proven dastard.

Have you chosen a suitable punishment yet?

[roadrunner_0]

i bet you were to the wrong schuh you gimp

go to virgin megastore down from eldon square, it and tk maxx are both in monument mall

i cant believe that you didn't know that there are 2 schuh stores, you have been looking in the one that doesn't carry any of their sale stock you gimp!
I don't even live in newcastle and even i knew that

[Marilyn Manson]

It isn't there.

Wait here, I'm going to investigate this and come back in here.

[roadrunner_0]

im telling you, tk maxx is downstairs in monument mall, below virgin megastore

i know this because i get most of my clothes from there fs

[madi]

are you looking for comfortable recreational footwear or are you taking up some sort of sporting activity
i half read the thread but could find no mention of the intended purpose

doesnt sound like you are about to start marathon training but should you be i would advice the spending of £70 so you dont bugger up your feet/ankles/knees

m
xx

[CrashTester]

TESCO

[roadrunner_0]

madi, he ain't taking up any sports, so a good pair of DC's or converse etc will be what he is looking for

(also, my last pair of running shoes only cost £40, and were fantastic, putting pair to the myth that you have to sell a kidney to be able to afford comfortable shoes that will protect your joints)

[xtrasyn]

Originally Posted by madi

are you looking for comfortable recreational footwear or are you taking up some sort of sporting activity
i half read the thread but could find no mention of the intended purpose

doesnt sound like you are about to start marathon training but should you be i would advice the spending of £70 so you dont bugger up your feet/ankles/knees

m
xx

Thank you for changing your avatar.
You are beautiful and I still love you.

Tom.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by xtrasyn

Tom.

No, we're not having this again. We already have a Tom here. You're now called John.

[xtrasyn]

Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson

No, we're not having this again. We already have a Tom here. You're now called John.

Your will does not extend to my passport or ID card

so


TOUGH

[Cannon_Fodder]

Originally Posted by CrashTester

TESCO

ASDA!

[madi]

Originally Posted by xtrasyn

Thank you for changing your avatar.
You are beautiful and I still love you.

Tom.

i am such a girl
even though i know the picture is quite silly i am all smiles and giggles :-)

xxx

(p.s. wouldnt work for all of you others btw, its just because he is special and makes my knees go to jelly)
(p.p.s. not that i suppose you care lol)

[madi]

http://www.yoox.com/searchResult.asp...rdinaprezzo=UA

posh trainers and such

m
xx

[Marilyn Manson]

Okay, so I eventually got some from JJB. I went into TK Maxx, but they only had pretty awful ones, with a few that I liked, but were not in my size. (They seemed to only stock up to 10 1/2.)

TK Maxx is not "across the road" from Schuh. It is across the road, round the corner, in a mall, and then down a flight of stairs.

[roadrunner_0]

just to let everyone know here, MM is a 6'6" tall goth with long black hair and a faintly menacing aura, he ain't going to look good in a pair of addidas, even black adiddas, he needs to get something slightly alternative otherwise he will just look silly

[Marilyn Manson]

I got a pair of greyish nike for seveteen pounds sterling, and I don't particularly care how they look, as I won't be wearing them much, other than to run in.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by madi

even though i know the picture is quite silly i am all smiles and giggles :-)

You look like someone has started rodgering you from behind without issuing any prior warning.

[roadrunner_0]

you? running? **** off, i don't believe you
i cannot think of any conceivable reason for you to run

[Nodrog]

You should get running shoes for running.

Also lolling at the thought of a goth running outside in trainers and makeup.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

i cannot think of any conceivable reason for you to run

Getting some of the beef off my backside would be the prime one I was thinking of.