Shadowing Practice: YOU'RE STYLING SNEAKERS WRONG - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This video is sponsored by Monarch.
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With the rise in popularity of mules, boots, loafers, and all other elevated variations of footwear, fashion has become too cool.
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The marketplace of swag has really diversified its spread, compared to the Hype B sneaker monopoly about a decade ago.
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But ironically, at the same time, I feel like there's never been more variation in what could be considered cool for sneakers nowadays.
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From color scheme, material, and especially shape.
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The sneaker landscape is quietly in its golden age, so as to not miss the good times as they're happening,
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I'm gonna walk you through the spread and we can figure out what sneaker works best for your wardrobe and more importantly, how to style them.
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So I think the way sneakers are styled has drastically changed over the past 10 years.
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A decade ago is primarily just centerpiece styling, where a rare or trendy pair of sneakers would just take center stage and essentially, that would just be the fit.
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If you really have f ck or whatever, you're pretty much good.
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Whereas now I feel like sneaker styling has taken a more holistic approach.
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The shoe pants relationship is a lot more equal.
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I like to think we've matured about it, generally speaking.
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We care more about silhouette and aesthetic synergy now.
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And I think they are the pillars
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that give sneakers an edge over any other piece that you could have in your wardrobe.
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So from here on out We are just going to play into those specific strengths.
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It is pointless kind of walking down the avenue of the minimal leather sneaker as you can
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You can kind of communicate that idea wearing almost anything and there's nothing wrong with them You know,
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I indulge in a good white leather sneaker as much as the next guy more than the next guy video is about.
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We used to pray for times like this.
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So let's start with the most exciting thing about sneakers in 2026.
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Silhouette.
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I don't think there's ever been a bigger spread of shapes and features when it comes to sneakers than like right now.
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Starting with my personal favorite, these kind of slim build sneakers.
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Just a big fan of a good zero calorie sneaker.
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Things like the Onitsuka Tiger, you know, obviously the Samba, Just this genre of sneaker right here.
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I've always personally been a fan of like these archive puma
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and nike sneakers like the old Prada sports stuff too I don't know what they were doing man, but they were doing the right thing and I'm glad
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that we are back on the same page I've been wearing them like this, you know, just some great contrast with a nice generous pair of pants
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Stacking over top covering and having the little nose
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come up
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and you take a step there's just a you know this effect kind of just really harmony you know yin
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and yang we love yin
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and yang in the universe we see it all throughout the universe
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so why not appreciate it with your pair of shoes as
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well like i know you're probably looking at this like what
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are those what are you wearing even you know i've never seen
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that pair of shoes ever i've had my fun with them
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i've been wearing them for all about a year now my personal daily skinny
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the Puma VS. Just a sick and interesting pair.
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I just love them.
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I really like the shape.
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I really like the features, the styling.
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They have cool colorways.
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Also, if you are wondering about the custom bodywork on these as well, that is not through wear and tear.
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That is by design because I don't know what is wrong with me, man.
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I don't know what's wrong with me or maybe I'm buying the wrong size
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because the back of my ankle gets absolutely grafted by these when here's a picture
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the top off just to like relieve some pressure from my ankle
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and now they're my most worn pair of sneakers of the past year.
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But more styling for the silhouette, you know, other than like this pants situation that I just showed, you know, just a nice pair of shorts, some high socks, kind of teased, cozy stacking.
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Boom, slim pair of shoes, call it a day.
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Classic pairing for all shapes, really.
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Like how in 2016, remember how like skinny stack jeans was fit pick crack?
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It was like how many stacks could you get?
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But now I I feel like a nice, organic looking, cozy, little bit of stack, like, oh, that looks comfy on a pair of shoes.
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If you've been living under a rock and you haven't gotten adjusted to this yet, it's just a pair of high socks, you know, usually a cozier material.
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I just use the Uni -Close socks.
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There is nothing special about this.
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Just give them little tease, you know, give them little just with them a little bit, just like do whatever.
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Not too tight, like give 'em some life.
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Bang, changes up the whole vibe.
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I kinda just do this whenever I'm wearing high socks, anytime, you know, even with slides.
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Sometimes I'm doing it with boots, not that that even matters.
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Sometimes I just, even when I'm wearing pants, I just have 'em hidden under the pants, so when I cross my legs and then they ride up and it's just like, oh, his socks are all loose and cozy.
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What a chill guy.
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Maybe I will give him a million dollars.
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blattering silhouette.
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But now if we add some meat to these things, you know, this is where it gets interesting.
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I feel like the bulky sneaker narrative has finally escaped novelty and is now just another equal part of like the spread.
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Personally big fan of the Nike shocks revival.
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Remember the power balance bands like these that were supposed to like make you indestructible?
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Like you could get hit by a car and it's like, well, at least I'm not falling over or whatever.
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I thought that Nike If you get a good kick on someone with these, yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.
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But also, hey, short king fun hack.
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If you're a short king, if you're a little short little guy, listen up.
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Good haircut, pair of Nike shocks, lose a little weight, you know, get in shape.
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Boom.
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It's like you're 5 '9".
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And if you're a man of average height, we're not necessarily flying first class, but it's premium economy.
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Big fan.
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just on a generational run like they have not stopped being cool over the past five years.
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The skate shoe revival
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if you're really into these types of shoes there's like I don't know where these came from but they're back.
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The hiking shoes have not lost traction.
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Personally I think all of these are great with a nice sack stock.
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Personally, I think all of these are great with a good sock stack combo.
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Sack stock.
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But yeah, the sock stack combo, it's like burgers and fries for your feet.
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A nice wide pair of shorts.
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Cargo pants are always nice with this as well.
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Sweat pants, anything that you can kind of cinch at the bottom to create a little bit of contrast.
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Or laid over, both laid over and cinched.
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I feel like a more generous pair of pants does these shoes justice.
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Skinny pair of pants, you know, it's like What do you know about, like, what are you gonna do with all that?
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You don't know how to handle all that.
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Pass me the controller, you know?
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Like, you don't deserve all of that.
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I suggest this template if you're just looking for a place to start.
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Slightly oversized top, neutral to longer length, nothing to crop, nothing boxy, just, just an easy fitting top.
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Fairly wide pair of pants or shorts.
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Doesn't have to be baggy, I'm just saying they gotta have some shape to handle all of that.
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some denim shorts or cargo pants personally, but you know, kind of stick to this general shape.
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And maybe, maybe a stacked sock, bam, bulky shoe.
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And then you can really just pick whichever one excites you from there.
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Fairly basic template, but you know, not everything has to be complicated.
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This top bottom combo sets you up so
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that you do not have to confront the fear of your big shoe looking awkward, which is what I feel like a lot of people are intimidated about with this silhouette,
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you know, just kind of for the first time ever, of action and you're like, "Oh man, I don't know what to do with all that but it's really cool.
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But, I don't know if I can handle all that." Stick to the template.
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But generally speaking for silhouette, in general, I feel like pants pairing, shoe pants pairing is where it matters the most.
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For slim profile shoes, big cut, I suggest a long or medium inseam.
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For straight cut, also same thing, long or medium inseam, nothing too skinny, nothing too cropped.
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For bulky shoes, I feel like all just relaxed fit pants look good even if they're a little bit higher up.
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I feel like the contrast between your big shoes and your pants always works really well.
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Also big shorts I feel works well with both slim and bulky profile.
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And if you found that part confusing, watch it again.
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You know, I definitely could have worded the last part better, but I didn't.
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So here's what I'm Obviously these are guidelines that just work in a general sense.
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Good styling and proper pairing can make any proportion look good.
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Just watch any wisdom video who just sh *t on the idea of like, "I don't like skinny on skinny." And then he's like,
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"Well, f *ck you." So if you know how to style the shoes
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and make them look well outside of the stupid guidelines that I created, that I made up, I completely made this up for the person that does not know what they're doing.
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better, then you can do better.
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If you just need some direction, I like these setups.
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That's it.
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There's nothing crazy.
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Now we can get into the more colorful and fun part of what sneakers have to offer in 2026.
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Themes.
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Culturally, we are in a time right now where we want to have our cake and eat it also.
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The need to both fit in, but also feel special, but also feel safe,
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but also Paradox at least commercially is just just just spray and pray for aesthetic direction.
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They were gonna hit every single niche I want every single
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niche every single subculture every vein of nostalgia has to be covered
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Which obviously can be taken as a bad thing but to play devil's advocate
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It kind of gives you an opportunity to look at a spread
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and then explore and then define what palette you actually want to create for yourself
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having to fit into one box you get to choose and for sneakers specifically
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there's never been more food on the fridge you know it's like looking at the menu at the Cheesecake Factory
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and it's like you guys make all of this
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and you're all you're like you know you're like
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if there's all of this on the menu none of it's probably
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that good but imagine that you can only eat at the Cheesecake Factory
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and there's nowhere else to eat so then you're just like okay well I
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Life kind of so life is like a big cheesecake factory
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that you and but you can't choose any other place to eat
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and If you were if you had to eat at the Cheesecake Factory if you had to pick a
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Sneaker that you were gonna wear you're probably you should pick one
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that you associate that you that you like but okay alright, so I
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personally I hate man like I said earlier big fan of
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the Nike shocks I was just a big part of me
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growing up in the 2000s I just find myself gravitating towards things
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that pioneered my taste as a kid
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and this goes for all avenues of art really I don't
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know how many else of you guys grew up going to
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the cheesecake factory as a kid like they had the biggest
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one in the world in Hawaii at one point I don't know how much of
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that is true but it just that really with my
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going on with that place why is the menu
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so big how are they pulling
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that off there's something crazy going on anyways what am i saying um nike shocks
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but finding things
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that associate with your personality i you know i was born in san diego i grew up in japan
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and hawaii you know home of the biggest cheesecake just got these vans
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that i find to be quite silly i mean it's literally in my name defining than these specific shoes right here.
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And obviously, this is not for everyone.
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I wouldn't imagine this is for everyone.
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If not for the personal association to the things that make up this shoe, just visually, I don't know if I would like the shoe that much.
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But it's the intangibles.
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Like, when you gotta describe why you love a woman, right?
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You're not gonna say, oh, I just,
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that doesn't mean anything but means everything or or or you say some you say nothing that means everything or
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Some in the middle.
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You're not gonna say I really like the craftsmanship sneakers have
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that intangible where like it doesn't mean anything
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But that's what means everything also all the stuff Vans is doing to push the needle as well big fan
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Just for aesthetics man, these Puma VS1's that I brought up earlier, you know, like again, domesticated soccer cleat, I understand the reference, I never played soccer growing up.
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It just wasn't my thing.
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Not that I couldn't pull up off the couch if I wanted to though.
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But a lot of the style cues that make up a sneaker like this, they remind me a lot of like the drift cars and like that JDM scene from the 90s and 2000s,
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very fast and furious, maximum tune, need for speed.
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my head, you know, this almost looks like an M3 GTR if you really think about it.
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Or like Paul Walker's R34 and too fast, too furious.
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Kind of.
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But see, I don't know, like the regular person might not see that.
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I happen to see that.
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I happen to like it.
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You're in my cheesecake factory right now.
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This is my personal cheesecake factory.
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All of these things, you know, this is just very idiosyncratic to me.
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You don't have to understand it, but that's the whole point.
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And styling wise, the more new -age streetwear stuff as a lot of people are.
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That mature hybrid evolution of streetwear, menswear, and everything in between.
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This popular classic trainer we're seeing everywhere.
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Like the Mew Mew New Balances.
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Dries has this new one that I've been seeing making waves on the internet a lot.
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Haven't seen people buying them, but we've been talking about them.
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On the more affordable end, I've been a big fan.
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Like of this Nike soccer cleat variant looking thing.
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A lot of like the has been more ambitious with the designs as well,
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all of which add good edge and fit thematically with this look.
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Whether you lean more maximalist or minimalist, they work well in both contexts.
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And also just so much of the activewear stuff in the activewear world.
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Asics, Solomon, Puma, just a cargo pants' best friend.
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And if you're into things like material and wardrobe modularity, things like Americana and minimalism,
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the elevated sneaker spread has never been more tasteful in years ago, it was like, you either pick a pair of common projects
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or whatever white leather sneaker with a logo you want to brand yourself with.
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Nowadays there's an infinite pool of cool, elevated, minimal leather sneakers from brands like Margiela,
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and I just throw all of them on the screen, man.
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And the list goes on.
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All of the silhouettes, all of the themes, all of the reasoning, the whole Cheesecake Factory menu of stuff, man.
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All of it debunking too cool to wear sneakers.
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They are the hits of personality that you can't really capture with a minimal leather boot.
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Again, nothing wrong with a lot of the minimal leather footwear stuff as
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that still does take a majority of my wardrobe up.
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But in 2026, you know, sneakers give me the opportunity to have fun again.
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Like, I'm tired of eating at Michelin star restaurants.
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You gotta pig it out at the Cheesecake Factory every once in a while.
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Just not taking fashion too seriously, giving me a that I don't have to explain.
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Like I don't want to explain why I'm wearing a pair of red floral vans. As a grown man.
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If you want to eat a pineapple cream Godiva strawberry cream Chocolate cheesecake...
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with Cinnabon inside or whatever the f* they got.
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You don't have to explain that.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 248 zinnen en 3330 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 19:28. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 171 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 80% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- pants /pænts/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — broek. An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
- sock /sɑk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — sok, kous. A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
- shoe /ˈʃu/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schoen. A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…
- stack /stæk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — stapel. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- leather /ˈlɛðɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — leer, leder. A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier…
- skinny /ˈskɪni/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — mager. Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- shock /ʃɔk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schok, shock. A sudden, heavy impact.
- menu /ˈmɛn.juː/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — menu. The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
- minimal /ˈmɪn.ə.məl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — minimaal. The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- soccer /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — voetbal. Association football.
- avenue /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — weg, laan. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a…
- boot /but/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — laars, bot. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- cargo /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — vracht, lading. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
- ankle /ˈæŋ.kəl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — enkel. The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
- template /ˈtɛm.plɪt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — sjabloon, malplaatje. A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (werkwoord) — verder gaan. To continue in extent.
- grow up (werkwoord) — opgroeien. To mature and become an adult.
- bring up (werkwoord) — opvoeden. To mention.
- end up (werkwoord) — belanden, terechtkomen. To bring to a conclusion.
- fall over (werkwoord) — omvallen. To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
- figure out (werkwoord) — uitvogelen, er achter komen. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- get in (werkwoord) — binnenraken. To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
- get off (werkwoord) — van ... afgaan. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 94 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shoe /ˈʃu/, shock /ʃɔk/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als pants, sock, shoe.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | I've been wearing · you've been living · I've been seeing |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has become · has really diversified · has taken |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is sponsored · could be considered · are styled |
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