When I was a teenager there was nothing that symbolized dopeboy swag more than a pair of Bally shoes. This is why I felt so official when I copped my first and only pair of Bally sneakers from the Fulton Street mall. Before Nike was charging fools a yard for the Air Jordan I was paying a buck for Bally tennis shoes.
The Competition is still the GOAT tennis shoe in my mind. I can’t even find a pair of them on the web to show y’all how dope they were. I did come up on this image of the classic Bally slip-on walker. These is the joints that if you stepped on his foot at the Rooftop roller rink MC Ricky D would shoot you about.
For those of you keeping score at home…
Bally >>> British Walkers >>> Clark Wallabees
That is some super OG real talk. Ask Mandela.
