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Everyone knows that to make the fit work, you must have the right shoes. You can dress lazy, athletic, dapper, etcetera and nothing will go together unless you have the right shoes. You cannot just pair some jeans and a T-shirt with some slides and call it a fit. Now piece those same jeans and T-shirt with some all-white Nike Air Force Ones and the shoes themselves just opened any color scheme that you are feeling that day. My sneaker heads know what I am talking about. 

I walked around the GV campus and talked to some people about the shoes they were wearing, and many of them had interesting reasons why they had them. Now when you hear Jordan, there’s a couple of things that come to mind. The bald headed goat with six rings and shoes. I talked with Damon Street, a football player here at GV, about his pair of Jordan 4’s that he wears to class. 

“You can tell a lot about a person based on the shoes that they wear,” Street said. “I feel like Jordans just have a lot of different personalities to offer with their shoes.” 

Street shared where his love for shoes came to be saying he gets it from his momma. “My momma was a shoe head, so that’s who I get it from.” 

Alexa McCunn, a GV student, described her shoes in a somewhat funny way to me. She was wearing a pair of grey Asics. 

“So, every year for each new school year I buy myself a brand-new pair of shoes that I don’t work out in so I don’t ruin them,” McCunn said. “These are just a great pair that will go along with neutral outfits.” 

I have never heard of those shoes until my interview with her, but they did look extremely comfortable. She also described them as durable due to all the rough conditions the shoes had endured. 

Adidas, Puma, New Balance, Jordan, Nike and Vans were other hits around campus. A handful of people said their favorite brand was Nike. 

Joey Bregar was one of the people that I talked to about the shoes he was wearing, and he had on Adidas. He described his shoes as “definitely comfortable,” but added that he is more of a Nike person. He thinks Adidas are more of an athlete’s shoe because Nike can be worn to any event. 

“You at least got to have a pair of Adidas,” Bregar said.

I would consider myself a sneaker head. I catch myself walking around campus looking at people’s shoes and wondering how much they cost. It is crazy to me how some shoes go from $65 – $350 based on brand and size. Kaden Young, a GV student, purchased a pair of Jordan 11’s for $340. I sat down with Young and was still in disbelief  that he would spend so much on a pair of shoes. The most I have ever spent on shoes was about $145. 

Being a sneaker head does not mean you have to own all the new pairs of shoes or most expensive. What makes people sneaker heads is the fact that they are passionate about the shoes they own and take care of their favorite pair like their pair is the ‘grail’ of the sneaker world.