Pharmageek's PS--
The first and only time I had to have a pair of "MY ADIDAS" occured the summer before I started middle school: not only had the luckier kids back in 6th. grade started wearing them beforehand (just the basic leather and mesh fabric tennis shoe model with the blue stripes), but my own mother was one of the buyers at the Navy Exchange for the sub base we live at in Rota, Spain, where my dad was stationed at back in the mid-to-late '70s. PLUS she was the main buyer for the shoe department!
Needless to say, thanks to her particular job description and employee discount, by the end of summer just in time for the 1st. day of Jr. High School, I too was sporting my own pair of "MY ADIDAS". Then those Adidas (as well as Dad and family) a few months later, got to walk from Spanish onto American soil where Dad got stationed in New London, CT. But alas, all the kids at my new school were all into sporting the old-school Nike swoosh--curses!! LOL
Pharmageek's PS-- The first and only time I had to have a pair of "MY ADIDAS" occured the summer before I started middle school: not only had the luckier kids back in 6th. grade started wearing them beforehand (just the basic leather and mesh fabric tennis shoe model with the blue stripes), but my own mother was one of the buyers at the Navy Exchange for the sub base we live at in Rota, Spain, where my dad was stationed at back in the mid-to-late '70s. PLUS she was the main buyer for the shoe department! Needless to say, thanks to her particular job description and employee discount, by the end of summer just in time for the 1st. day of Jr. High School, I too was sporting my own pair of "MY ADIDAS". Then those Adidas (as well as Dad and family) a few months later, got to walk from Spanish onto American soil where Dad got stationed in New London, CT. But alas, all the kids at my new school were all into sporting the old-school Nike swoosh--curses!! LOL