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title: "Reebok Club C 85 (Menthol)"
date: 2021-09-16T18:12:35-04:00
categories: [shoes, reebok]
tags: [club c, white]
draft: false
develop/blog (#6) feat(theme): post's featured image moved post's heading image urls into metadata header so that the featured images can be shown on post lists as well as article pages fix(styles): shrank fonts again noticed "Professional" in a header overflows horizontally so i had to make it smaller Co-authored-by: steven-y-e <steven@mineral.town> Reviewed-on: http://irie.clinic.homo.casa/steven-y-e/friends-of-mineral-town/pulls/6 Co-Authored-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> Co-Committed-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost>
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image: "/images/reebokclubc85mentholstock.jpg"
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I bought these shoes because they reminded me of a menthol cigarette. That's a bit of an oversimplification, so let me explain: back in 2006, following the praise of BAPE's "bootleg" of the Air Force 1, the "Bapestas," fellow sneaker-head Ari Saal Forman released a 252 pairs of the "Ari Menthol 10s" in a sample run to a couple of smaller retailers in New York.
The Ari Menthol 10s were a spin on the Air Force 1 that inverted the Nike "Swoosh" Logo, making it more resemble the branding of Newport Cigarettes; they were a criticism of "the two brands who have taken the most and given the least": Nike and Newport, who've both in some capacity, exploited and profited from the Black American community. Neither Nike nor Newport were happy about this product, so they sued Ari into oblivion.
These are just a classic tennis shoe in a colourway that happens to resemble a menthol cigarette, but they'll always remind me of that piece of "lore" I mentioned earlier.