Chicks in Kicks

Hello Young World!!
It's been a long time... I shouldn't have left you... Without a dope blog post to vibe to... :-)
Ok, like I said in my first post, I don't really have a set style regimen. Again, I think fashion is too fun to stick to one style. Unlike a lot of fashion bloggers I am a sneaker wearer. Now don't get me wrong... I'm faaaaaaaarrr from a sneaker head. Sneaker heads are apart of a large underground culture. It is a way of life for some people. [not me though] I just love certain sneakers... They must be fly though...
Anyway, on Twitter I came across the following comment:

"Any woman that is 21+ and still wears Jordan's is either hood, can't walk in heels or just plain BASIC"

*Dora blink* Riiiiighhhhtt... Ok, soo.. *Dora Blink*
Let's start from the beginning. The term "basic" is used to describe a less than ordinary woman. Pretty much it's a woman that doesn't have anything going for herself.  It can be heard in many rap songs referring to women that smoke all day, wear lace fronts, stay in the hood, etc, etc.  Now, I usually don't take tweets personally, but this one in particular kind of threw me off.  I am a retro Jordan's wearer however I am no where near "BASIC".  I am a college graduate, I have a car, my own place, blah blah blah.  So that raised the issue with a few of my Team Sneakers and Stilettos members.
Since I've been reading fashion blogs I've noticed that a lot of "high-fashion" blogs kind of look down on sneakers.  The reason for this I will never know or understand.  At what point did it become a bad thing to be a girl and wear sneakers?

There are many female sneaker wearers out there including celebrities.  Here are a few:

Lauren and Cassie are seen here wearing the Jordan Retro 3's "True Blues"

 Kelis is wearing the Cement Retro 3's

And lastly, my favorite picture of my favorite actress wearing a pair of one of my favorite Retro Jordan's....

 Tracee Ellis Ross wearing the Retro 5's... And a $30k Hermes Birkin bag... Yeeaaaa...Basically.

I believe 75% of the reason why I wear sneakers is due to my job.  However, over time I've grown to have a genuine admiration for sneakers.  In my opinion, they are pretty cool.  That doesn't make me "basic" for wearing them.  Fly is Fly.  Why cant the girl in the Retro Jordan's be as fly as the chick in the 5' stilettos?? At the end of the day it's all about style and how you put things together.  Everyone's style is different.  Just respect it for what it is.

Shout out to all the girly girls that own a rack of jordans and sport them like she sports her pumps! [Sorry Wale, I had to put my little spin on that verse... think I did pretty good too...:-)]

With that I'll leave you with a collage of a few pairs of sneakers I own...



I'm really interested in hearing what you all think about sneakers... Let's talk :-)