Sneaker Heads

By Osvaldo Aguilar

In the beginning of the year of 2009 a student from Serra High School started to collect nice quality shoes as a hobby. The passion awakened for collecting different colorful, comfortable shoes.

This Serra High student explains his affection for shoes, “ I enjoy collecting shoes because I like having a pair of shoes for every outfit everyday.”

Collecting Shoes is not only a passion or a hobby but also make you feel good inside and different explains, Sweetwater High student Oliver Saenz, “ Collecting shoes gave me a unique style and characteristic.”

Serra Sophmore Oscar Aguilar always admired the difference in his cousins authentic way of sporting the shoes. “Seeing my brother and cousins wear different shoes got me interested to look cool.

Far from Oscar, Oliver collected shoes because he found them as part of his daily life. “ What inspired me to collect shoes was mainly because they were fashionable”. He explains “ I got a sense of unique style.”

Others have a variety of shoes like Oliver. Some just buy shoes to make themselves feel like part of society . Unlike Oscar, “It makes me feel like I have a different appearance in our daily life.”

After many hours of impatiently waiting in line to have the new pair Nike Petosky they finally have them in their hands. It takes a couple of hours of standing in long cold, sunny lines. Every year hundreds of new brand name shoes come from different places to make shoe fairs of the latest brands for the upcoming year. Hundreds of people and local store owners appear at the shoe fairs to decide what kind of name brands will appear for the new trends. People like Oliver don’t want to wait for the local stores to get the name styles and brands to reach to the local stores. He rather go and find his own styles before everyone else.