Sneaker collecting

A sneakerhead is a person who owns multiple pairs of shoes as a form of collection and fashion. It is often manifest by the use of shoes primarily made for sports such as tennis or basketball as normal everyday clothing. The birth of sneakerhead culture came in the late 1980s and can be attributed to two major sources: basketball and hip hop music. The boom of signature basketball shoes in the late 1980s provided the shear numbers and multiple varieties necessary for a collecting subculture while the Hip-Hop movement gave the sneakers their street value as status symbols. [cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR2007011400451_2.html|publisher=The Washington Post|title=Sneakerheads love to show off shoes|accessdate=2008-01-19]

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Sneakerheads live by one rule live and love shoes.The culture mainly was started by the basketball legend himself Michael Jordan.He made the culture mainstream by creating his most famous Jordan brand.Sneakerheads are basically shoe collectors trying to find cool new Sneaks for theyre collection.Real sneakerheads buy shoes over costing large amounts of money.Conventions are held everywhere in the world just for sneakerheads.These are where people gather talk,trade,and buy shoes.There are also shoe stores that are so secretive that they are disguised so you might be walking in front of a Sneakerhead hot spot and not even now it.

Further reading

*Michael Kahn, " [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040928-0500-life-sneakers.html Sneakerheads show sole devotion to footwear] ", "The San Diego Union-Tribune" (September 28, 2004).
*RICHARD A. MARTIN, " [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/nyregion/thecity/11snea.html?pagewanted=all&ei=5090&en=f700166671d00121&ex=1247284800&partner=rssuserland The Rebirth of the New York Sneakerhead] ", "The New York Times" (July 11, 2004).
*Michael Tunison, " [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602181_pf.html 'Sneakerheads' Kick It Up a Notch in Search for That Rare Pair] ", "Washington Post" (Saturday, February 17, 2007): D01.
*ERIC WILSON, " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1DB1630F930A15750C0A9609C8B63 Front Row; Sneakerhead Bonanza] ", "The New York Times" (March 23, 2006).
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0500512159 "Sneakers: The Complete Collectors' Guide"]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972592032 "Where'd you get those?"]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000J6H1R0 "Sneaker Freaker"] )
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000F4TMFK "Just for Kicks"]
* "Sneaker Freaker" magazine