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May 13Liked by Best Friends

I had a pair a of sperry’s in high school 🙂‍↔️

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I had a pair after college and I wore them to shreds!

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Feb 11Liked by Best Friends

The red ones are so good! Also unlocked a memory of a pair of Eastland ones i used to have ... gotta look for them!

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I loved wearing my boat shoes but always felt so dorky bc no other person at my highschool wore them. I think in college they eventually fell out of my wardrobe. I can't believe we're coming back to them.

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Isn’t that funny. Seems the be the cyclical way of fashion trends. I’m still chuckling at the wide leg pants shift. It’s all pretty fun :)

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I can’t keep up!

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I have so, so many Sperrys lmfao; I never throw them away, I always think: "This will be a good shoe to do yard work in," and then I wear whatever newer Sperrys I have while I do yard work, because they're boat shoes and I'll be damned if I treat them like something to be "taken care of"!!!

A while back, I ordered a pair of like... I guess aftermarket modified Sperrys with an incredible floral print on them, but when they arrived I discovered the site had lied and they were, indeed, women's sizes in the dropdown.

I'm convinced that Sperrys with patterns / designs would be absolutely ultimate, and for me personally the ideal possible shoe; I dream of the range of e.g. Vans or Converses or whatever (hopefully even better, but I'd take that!), but on Sperrys. This is one of the things I live for: the day when it's possible to get boat shoes with crazy patterns of many varieties on them.

Continuing: I recently got a new kind of Sperry: "Authentic Original™ Double Sole Nubuck Boat Shoe" in a color they call "khaki" but which I know better as "white." I mourn the absence of the (obnoxious, constantly untying) traditional laces; but these are, from a performance standpoint, incredible. They're really light; they breath well; and the lace design makes them even lazier an option than regular boat shoes, which now seem like thigh-highs in terms of lace complexity to me.

Your parents seem dope, which doesn't ultra-shock me given you!

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I can't stand "taking care of" my clothes! Good news, I THINK there are def patterned Sperrys in mens sizes out there, will do some digging. Also, I did notice your white pair looked like way more comfortable than any pairs I've had. Shoe technology has really advanced (almost as much as cars... lol JK JK that's impossible).

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it's enough that I sometimes (and I won't say this out loud) don't want to wear my regular sperrys

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