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2009/08/03

Thrillist Nation: Mu Shoe Gai Pan

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Thrillist Nation
Monday August 3, 2009

Warrior Footwear

Communism gets a bad rap, but nobody ever thanks it for all
it's given us, like Cohiba cigars, easy Poli-Sci classes,
and a career for Sylvester Stallone. For one more gift from
the Party of Awesome: Warrior Footwear.

Brought back to America by two enterprising students who
noticed the shoes' ubiquity while interning in Shanghai,
Warriors were born in 1935 as an inexpensive athletic shoe
for the masses, but became iconic lifestyle pieces during
the 70s-90s, before China opened its doors to international
shoe conglomerates, and laborers all went to work for
maximum wage in wondrous factories and lived happily ever
after. The brand-spankin' e-shop hawks five models (all w/
canvas uppers, PVC details, and vulcanized rubber outsoles),
including the World Tour Tennis, a white job with dark green
Asics-aping stripes and a beige toe bumper, and the Team
Basketball, in white or black, with each getting red stripe
details and -- as they're made of canvas -- explaining Yao
Ming's foot problems. For white-canvased kicks inspired by
sports the Chinese are actually good at, snag either the
low-top Lane Badminton, with blue ring detail around the
bottom and three blue stripes running from the laces that
meet as one at the heel, or the curved-sole, red-and-blue
arrow-detailed Street Kung Fu, which unfortunately won't be
able to help you once a Kumite breaks out, and you realize
you took perfecting your "drunken" style way too literally.