Within in any culture, one must realize that people have different motives as to why they desire to be apart of the said culture. It’s the classic tug of war between preservation & capitalization. The “sneaker game” is nothing new; however, one cannot deny that there has been a huge influx, recently, of participants in the “sneaker game”. Some people have ill feelings towards it, some don’t. Some blame it on the “hypebeasts”, resellers, and some even blame it on us, the blogs. Some even blame Wale. Whatever one’s theory may be, one must realize that there have always been people who follow trends, people who capitalize financially from trends, and those who cover or broadcast the trends; there is nothing new under the sun.
We recently took a trip down to Decatur St. in downtown Atlanta to a staple in not only Atlanta’s, but the entire South’s sneaker culture in the World Famous Walter’s. Here, we spoke to a few individual who are already camped for a pair of sneakers that does not release until days from now (February 24).
- AtlantaGotSole(2/21/12)