Ugliest Basketball Shoes Biography
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When did we go from sleek classics to much-maligned designs such as Adidas Originals and Jeremy Scott’s embarrassing (and debatably racist) JS Roundhouse Mids, complete with shackle-style ankle cuffs?
What made us think that basketball kicks equal a pair of mesh-ensconced, carbon fibre monstrosities with pump technology, Thermoplastic Urethane soles and neon patent leather panels glowing a radioactive shade of Chernobyl (guaranteed to instantly add vertical leap)?
It’s simple: It’s a sign of the times. Basketball shoe makers left behind simple, practical designs and started focusing more on flash factor ever since Adidas introduced its now-iconic Superstars (more on those beauts later). Prior to then, basketball shoes were seen as less a fashion statement and more of a piece of equipment, said Elizabeth Semmelhack, senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Ont., and the mind behind its Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture exhibit.
The first shoes designed specifically for basketball players popped up around the turn of the 20th century, right after the game was created for the YMCA as a way to foster team spirit during the winter months. At the time, basketball shoes were little more than a tool on the court.
Then came the breakthroughs in rubber production during the First and Second World Wars that helped make the classic canvas upper basketball shoe ubiquitous.
But it’s in the late 60s and early 70s that new fads such as jogging pulled basketball and athletic shoes into the realm of street style for the first time—and put sneaks at the whim of crazy designers. With the fitness craze hitting North America full force, people began wearing basketball shoes as a way to express their status as active individuals living up to their full potential.
It started at the Adidas Superstar in 1969, said Semmelhack. This shoe was unlike anything before it: It was the first low-top model. It traded canvas for a full leather upper. And—more interestingly—it was bought up by basketball players and the fashion crowd alike. Styles such as 1972’s Nike Cortez and 1974’s Nike Waffle Trainer followed.
“All of the sudden, the lights go on, and the basketball shoe now becomes the focus of fashion as well,” said Semmelhack.
From then on, said Semmelhack, the leather basketball shoe became associated with high-end players (think MJ signing on with Nike), exclusivity, collecting and technology. Its tie with new technologies especially helped fuel its role as a style symbol, with advances dreamed up for the court capturing the imagination of the public—the same pump technology that did away with laces on Reebok’s Insta Pump Furies made them look pretty badass at the same time.
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