Current Events > Nordstrom sells out of dirty-looking, $530 dollar shoes, complete with duct tape

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https://www.wxyz.com/nct/lifestyle/nordstrom-sells-out-of-dirty-looking-530-shoes-with-duct-tape

Perhaps it was the sheer amount of commotion they caused or maybe a lot of people just reluctantly tossed their own worn-out pairs of shoes.

Either way, a pair of shoes sold by Nordstrom left the internet in disbelief before selling out.

The department store's "Golden Goose Superstar Taped Sneaker" retailed for $530 online. The shoes, crafted to appear like worn out, scuffed shoes with duct tape across the wearer's toes went like hotcakes.

(If those hotcakes were old, though it seems they would probably sell.)

To Nordstrom's credit, the shoe description doesn't wax poetic about how great customers will feel wearing them, using adjectives like "crumply" and "grungy."

"Crumply, hold-it-all-together tape details a distressed leather sneaker in a retro low profile with a signature sidewall star and a grungy rubber cupsole," the description reads.

Nonetheless, fashion doesn't always make sense.

The shoes were just the latest in a line of fashion faux pas that has routinely confused and bewildered online audiences; from jeans that are ripped and muddy to ones that are barely there.

What the fuck is "style" these days?
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Nice, I can just keep using my 5 year old shoes with holes in them and keep up with fashion
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The people buying this shit dont care about style bro its all about the hype. Dont act surprised.
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I remember people paying top prices for a literal brick.
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Someone @ all the fashionistas
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Distressed clothing has been a thing for decades. Jeans are the most common one, but I've also seen shirts that were intentionally made to look old and ratty, and at one point they were selling baseball caps with the end of the bill all tattered and shitty looking.

These are mostly just ironic because of the price
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Flockaveli posted...

The people buying this shit dont care about style bro its all about the hype. Dont act surprised.

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Squall28 posted...

Someone @ all the fashionistas

Ain't no fashionistas defending this stuff, just tasteless hypebeasts who will buy anything so long as it has a supreme badge on it
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What next? Undies with permanent brown streaks and yellow stains for $200?
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You are surprised at that? That shoe is a yeezy compared to these Margielas
Scroll down to see it
https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/maison-margiela-future-destroyed-high-top-sneaker-white-yellow-prod192370016
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Thompson posted...

What next? Undies with permanent brown streaks and yellow stains for $200?

Shirts with bleach spots?
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This is what the Trump tax cuts are being spent on
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Antifar posted...

This is what the Trump tax cuts are being spent on

lmao nice bait

*swims by*
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