Reebok, loose socks, and treeruns . | feature

For Reebok,
Those loose socks!

Ishikawa:I've styled for Mountain Research several times since their early catalogs, but I haven't done so recently. It had been a while since I had received a styling order, and to my surprise, it was for a "Mountain Research" x "Reebok" project. I have to tell you, Abe, that these are the original loose socks! In fact, they were already in the first, or rather the second, catalog that I styled.

Abe:I remember when you were styling this time, you said, "It's EG Smith! when you were styling this time, right? But I don't remember loose socks. We must have been brainwashed long before that (laughs).

Among the looks he has worked on so far, he has used "Easysmith.

Here is the actual sock I used.

Ishikawa:Actually, there is a link between loose socks and "Reebok. The LA casual base, known in Japan as "paragals," would change the laces on their Reebok white high-cut shoes to something flashy, and wear Easy Smith socks. I mean, it had to be "EASY SMITHS! This was before the loose socks craze. The night before the kogyaru boom . This is really fashionable Shibuya.

Abe:Easy Smith" are socks for mountaineering, right?

Ishikawa:They used to sell them at Sony Plaza, of course, but also at Redwood and other places. I think they called them "boot socks." They were more like "outdoor fashionable socks. I kind of had the image of an American "Timberland" deck shoe crumpled up, rather than a London "Dr. Martens" boot girl.

Ishikawa:Seriously, I remember when W. Asano and others were wearing dressy laced up boots and "EASY SMITHS" with a touch of "cushioning". I guess it was the "Shibu-Kaja" era before "Chimer," from the 80s to the early 90s.

Abe:W Asano's styling, I remember!

Ishikawa:I was just starting my fitness and sports style work when "Tarzan" was launched. This was around the time that Reebok's high-cut fitness shoes were blowing up. Andy Warhol wore them with black jeans, even Mick Jagger wore them on stage, and Angus Young of AC/DC wore them in the early 1990s.

Abe:Why is that?

Ishikawa:That's how popular it was. Maybe because Angus Young had a bad back from playing that way (laughs). But that's not an athlete's sports shoe, just as a street casual shoe.

Abe:So Reebok is the pioneer.

Ishikawa:There aren't that many fitness shoes. You mean shoes for dancing. . So, I think it's around Olivia Newton John's "Physical. . That's why I've been wearing "Easysmiths" from the very beginning of this styling. . By the way, this is a pair I bought more than 30 years ago.