Monday, November 30, 2009

Cooperstown Collection x New Era

I realize it is not baseball season, but as I was flipping through Lids.com this past Black Friday, my eye continued to roam back to the MLB section. I feel like MLB hats are a little tighter than NFL, NBA and College hats mainly because it is essentially like wearing your favorite player's uniform.

Most of these hats I have pictured below are throwbacks from the Cooperstown Collection put out in collaboration with New Era, but I did throw in one modern day hat because I think we have all slept on it a little bit.



First up, Old School Phillies. Whoever thought of baby blue and marroon? That is a questionable decision right there. But after much reflection, this color scheme has grown on me. It makes me feel young again. Like I can open up a pack of baseball cards and eat the gum.



Montreal Expos. That cursive M is legit, as well as those different colored side panels. That red, white and blue makes me feel patriotic, however it is a Canadian team, so it confuses me.



This bird is up to something. It's like he knows something that I don't know. And it's a real good secret. He's a good guy though.



This is very Atari 2600. Not Nintendo or Commodore 64, because I never had a Commodore. That icon/ baseball player is right off an old school Atari 2600 cartridge. Just make sure you blow on it before you put it in.

I also love how it is spelled "Sox." We didn't know how to spell way before cell phones came out.



When this hat came out, kids went bonkers. The White Sox gained about 100,000 new fans. Every gang banger with a Raiders or LA Kings jacket now had a new cap to rock around the hood. Color out a small part of that "o" in Sox and it becomes "Sex." This cap is way underrated.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

DC shoes AT-3...my weapon of choice...



What do I wear? I put up all these posts about Jordans and Pumps, but what I am rocking right now are these DC AT-3 shoes. They have features that I like; the Aerotech airvent, the air bubble wrapping around the back and a cute little air pillow on the bottom of the sneaker. Plus, they are extremely comfortable.







The AT-2's and AT-3's both come in some wild combinations of colors, but the formal looking black and whites caught my eye in a DC store awhile back. When I have a pair of shoes I like, I wear them!

I found these at skatestyles.com

Friday, November 27, 2009

Jordan x Mars Blackmon

These are really the shoes that started it all for a lot of cats out there. The classic Air Jordan Nike. These shoes came out in 1989 and were priced at $110. I needed a Nintendo more than I needed these shoes at the time, but the Spike Lee/Mars Blackmon commercials definitely had me convinced I would have been the coolest kid at my school and the best basketball player if I had a pair of Jordan Fours.





These shoes are incredibly difficult to find in the classic Chicago Bulls colors, but there are many different varieties and editions available as Nike allows designers to get ahold of them and put their own twist on a legendary set of shoes.




Try to cop a pair at pickyourshoes.com and also check out their full selection of all style sneakers...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Spud Webb Dunk Contest 1986

It was 1986. I was 8 years old. And this is when I knew that anything was possible.

When the chips are down, and the world has got you by the throat, just watch this one minute and twenty nine second video and realize that if you believe, you can achieve...

(Don't sleep on the cameo by Jordan. He can't believe it either.)