Repo shoes
What’s that glow emanating from the box? A pair of Clarks Magic Steps, of course. Slight lack of Timotei waterfall in this particular ad but you get the idea. I love how the only way the wicked witch can get her grubby paws on the magic key is to take on a part-time job in a shoe shop. Also note LACK of trash-compacting foot measuring device.
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FT's Rob Brennan on January 23rd, 2007
I’ve been wracking my brains trying to remember what the equivalent Clarks boys’ shoe with accompanying action-packed fantasy advert was called. Looks like prestolovesvarla is going through the same agony - they seem to have been erased from interweb history.
A look at the Clarks website reveals they now have kids’ styles called ‘bovverd’ and ’so unfair’. HOW TIMES CHANGE etc.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on January 23rd, 2007
i loved the foot-measuring device! i liked the snug metallic feel of it on my foot and hoped that the shoe wd feel similar
in machynllyth in days gone by (ie the early 60s) there was a shoeshop with an X-RAY MACHINE to see if yr footbones were weird or not
Pete on January 23rd, 2007
Rob, i believe they were Pathfinders and had compass in the heel, though that may have been 1970’s.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on January 23rd, 2007
pathfinders also had the pawmarks of animals you were likely to be tracking! viz coypu, anomalous big cat, yog sothoth ect ect
FT's Rob Brennan on January 23rd, 2007
Yay Google! They were called Hardware and had a lightning bolt design and a computer keypad tread. The ad involved the kid getting sucked into a video game Tron-style.
Kat on January 23rd, 2007
Rob is correct! Much as I loved Magic Steps I wished I was more tomboy-like and sekritly coveted the Tron shoes.
Pete on January 23rd, 2007
Mine were in the seventies. I are so old.
Kieran on January 24th, 2007
Ah cracking Clarks shoes.
Still, always preferred the Adidas Torsion bar.