NBA playoffs or not, only one pair of Bostons dominate in LA

newsofmax05/30/2023

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NBA playoffs or not, only one pair of Bostons dominate in LA

“Boston.” Not a common word in Los Angeles, especially during the NBA playoffs. While the Lakers were fished by the Denver Nuggets, the Boston Celtics remained stranded. Like a mustard stain that no other Oxy Clean can remove. “Boston” is a buzzword around these parts due to the rivalry in sports and heartbreak. But more and more, when I think about Boston, I think about shoes. Specifically, the Birkenstock Boston mule – the official shoe of conspicuous comfort.

My Birks have held me by the neck and won’t let go. An anytime shoe fits the wearer’s foot over time, making them almost indispensable. They can and go with me wherever they go. The Venn diagram of comfort and luxury is now almost a single circle, and the Bostons have played a major role in that change of vibe.

Any juice is fine Uggs had left seemed exhausted. The Boston mule is a TikTok obsession, are often scammed by high-end brands and are always out of stock. Celtics star/what annoys me Brown Jaylen has rocked Birks for years now. It was both a beneficiary of the “ugly shoe” wave that began in the late 2010s and a perfectly legitimate design. Casual style observers might call it “daddy shoes” but the best dressed people you know are take pictures in it all the time. I love Fear God Los Feliz dép, but let’s be true. If any shoe should be named after that neighborhood, it should be the Bostons.

Like so many of Birkenstock’s product lines, Boston comes in a variety of colors and materials – from oiled leather and suede to a synthetic material called EVA. There are versions with lining at the foot and upper. The common point of all models is the simple structure. The sole on each pair of Bostons is so contoured to your foot that wearing someone else’s shoe is not only a gross look, it feels completely wrong; It’s like wearing someone else’s underwear. It’s an intimate relationship, like a child and their baseball glove. If you forget your gloves, it’s almost impossible to play. It is right for you and only you.

When you see Bostons in the wild, they have a dual meaning. Both are extremely comfortable shoes with a granola finish and are also symbols of LA’s rising mobile creative class. It can be a weekend shoe for the couch or it can feel solid and for the most part. urban exploration. The Boston is a shoe for 20-somethings as well as creative directors at Apple.

But Birkenstocks was once hippie-only territory. Worried about anything resembling counterculture, I wore vintage Birkenstock Arizonas (the product name for open-toed, two-strap sandals) when I was in high school in the early 2000s. It would be an overstatement. say I share the same confused look or worse, people assume I’m just using Tom’s natural deodorant. You know, the kind that makes your body odor worse instead of better.

But even then, elements of the hippie lifestyle have resurfaced. This was the decade when the Whole Foods Market exploded in popularity and everything was made from hemp. Medical marijuana laws were passed across the country in the 2000s. Ironically, young people fell in love with Phish, and then a few years later were honest with Phish. In Los Angeles, the stinking legacy of the hippie movement remains.

Hippies became synonymous with Los Angeles in the 1970s thanks to restaurants like Source. We did not invent crystals, incense, cleansing juices or comfortable footwear. In fact, most of those things are imported from other people’s cultures. But we’ve found a way to make them trend and put them in the ground. We are at the heart of the Moon Juice industrial complex, the city where Erewhon has a chance to grow (or metastasize, depending on your perspective). Birkenstock Boston fits the mentality that your body is a temple, both inside And outside. Somehow, a pair of shoes can make you feel good.

Perhaps that is why Boston has become such a valuable asset to so many people. Not all of us suddenly decided to be hippies. It is that they mold themselves around us and never leave us.

I realize that sounds like I’m describing a pet like a dog or a rabbit as being particularly friendly, but I thought maybe my Bostons played a similar role. I don’t name my shoes. I don’t mean to, though I think my brown leather Boston shoes will be called “Brad” or something similar. My shoes don’t curl next to me in “Succession” (or another Lakers playoff loss) on Sunday nights, but they signify that I’m at home. I mostly wear them for tedious work when I’m not wearing them house shoes. They activate a part of my brain that would be activated if I was greeted at the door by a cat meow.

Bostons have bucked trend cycles because they’re so personal in an age where everything feels like soulless mass-marketing or over-targeted in a way that seems disingenuous. They’ll collaborate with Dior, Jill Sander, Rick Owens or Proenza Schouler, but none of that makes the shoes any less authentic. In this day and age, it’s a miracle. Birkenstocks is a relic. A beautiful monument, well made. It’s a product, but it’s a product just for you.