When Bwog calls, our readers answer. Remarking on her fashion column in the Telegraph, we asked Bee Shaffer to settle the age-old question, the apple of discord that has been hurled into so many groups of friends, tearing them apart: New Balances or Converses?
Bee writes in:
Up until last year I wore New Balance sneakers everywhere, but then
my boyfriend, at the time, told me I was wearing “grandma shoes”
and bought me a pair of black Converse. I threw out the New Balance
and haven’t gone back since.
Which is less than comforting to Bwog, who is currently sporting gray New Balance 991s–although our grandmother is quite fashionable!
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@they_got_charlie! Weathered Blue Suede Adidas Campus II: more timeless than hip.
@tappa-tappa-tappa some people take bwog far too seriously.
@adidas sambas rock. period.
@moph i was really proud of my chinese “diesel”‘s and “puma”‘s, until i realized that there was a 100% chance they were made in a sweatshop.
they’re still great shoes, though..
@DHI New Balance are quality shoes. I will continue to wear mine until a few weeks after they start to fall apart.
@sw correct, friend
i wore chucks from grades four through eleven, but i could no longer stand how quickly they fell apart, so i went to new balance. i have only owned 2 or 3 pairs of shoes since then. i am a lazy, lazy man
@agreed why so uncomfortable? forsake comfort for style? i suppose.
@chuck too cheap to buy new shoes right now. and yes, the do go with everything. inserts help a little though. yay for geriatric converse!
@chuck having owned both, new balances don’t make me want to chop my legs off at the knee after long periods of standing, like my converse do.
@a question for bwog if you tap on bee’s head, does it make a noise?
@meh At least ms. shaffer is willing to be a good sport about having anonymous assholes like yourself make inane comments about her. I dont know what that says about her intelligence but it does say that she’s less cowardly than you.
@an answer wasn’t it bwog who posed the ridiculous question to begin with? by asking her a question about SNEAKERS, bwog is completely restricting her to her public persona, fueling any prejudices that might already exist against her. i don’t think it’s fair.