Do "Emo" kids know that the shoes they love, "Chucks," are owned by the big corporate conformist NIke company?
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They probably do, they're wearing them to be "ironic".
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Aren't Shaqs shoes from K-mart? But I guess thats a deal..
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NO!! Trust me a lot of my friends are punk and I love skate shoes they are really grat shoes because they have a lot of padding. I even ♥ love ♥ crowd surfing and moshing and stuff. It is perfectly normal.
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Kids.  They're responsible for $200 shoes that are only worth $15.  Video games that cost $50 and are only worth $2.  The enormous success of a trashy show like American Idol.  Perpetuating ignorance.  Geesh, i could go on and on...
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im not sure...i like their music, but not trying to offend anyone but all these little 7th graders are going out any buying "american idiot" and a pair of converse and think that they're punk...it kinda ruins the whole punk scene when its full of abercrombie... sorry if i offended anybody, its just my opinion
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emo kids are basically goths....except not as devil worshiping...aka fags
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You can usually tell an 'Emo' from a fashion view by floppy girlish hair (usually in face/over eyes) or big afro-style hairstyles on boys tight-fitting hipster jeans/chords, the colours black, red and purple. Longsleeved shirts where the cuffs come down over the hands. Loving to be miserable attitude. Think most of the poppish rock bands on the music channels. \n\nMany emos look like a cross between a modern goth and part hippy.\n\nSkaters are exactly that- skaters. Or people who want to dress like skaters- Avril Lavigne would love to be called a skater (but she's not... shudder). Below knee length shorts, padded trainers, hooded tops.\n\nChavvies are 'chavs'. You can usually tell a chav (from a fashion perspective) by large baseball cap either placed high on head or very low, hooded top (with hood over baseball cap), no socks, white trainers, tracksuit bottoms (usually white or blue for boys, pink for girls) hitched up about 2 inches above foot to show off ankles, gold chains, skin-tight ponytails for girls, big gold hoop earrings and really bad anti-social attitudes.  Other things to look out for is teenage pregnancy, bad housing estates, mobile phones, theft and burberry. Only available in the UK ;-)
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neither.\n\nwhy? its overpriced junk made in sweatshops in vietnam.\n\nget some 20 dollar shoes and settle for that.
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There are a few wholesale companies - the clothing is not name brand like Nike, but it is cheap - and it looks nice. They come in cases of 36 or 72. There is a minimum purchase.
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I will only answer question 6: Nike would hire a Vietnamese company that pays its labour 12 cents a day for a 16 hr day without any sort of health insurance to manufacture the shoes in small cramped and unsafe factories. Thats business!
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Nike owns that company now.\n\nAugust 12, 2004\nCOMPANY NEWS; NIKE BUYS OFFICIAL STARTER AND ENTERS DISCOUNT MARKET\n\nNike Inc., the sneaker maker, said yesterday that it had acquired Official Starter Properties and Official Starter for about $43 million, gaining several brands of sports apparel that sell in discount stores. The businesses, which own and license the Starter, Team Starter and Asphalt brands, will be operated by the Exeter Brands Group, a new operating unit, Nike said. Nike, based in Beaverton, Ore., also gains the Shaq and Dunkman brands of clothing, footwear and accessories. With the purchase, Nike will have brands in Wal-Mart and Kmart stores for the first time, a Nike spokeswoman, Joani Komlos, said. Official Starter Properties and Official Starter acquired the assets of the bankrupt Starter Corporation in 1999.\n\nUSA: Nike’s Starter Brand Goes On Sale At Wal-Mart\n\n15 April 2005| Source: just-style.com\n\nNike Inc, the world’s biggest athletic apparel maker, has started selling shoes in Wal-Mart under its new Starter brand.\n\nNike sans swoosh enters Wal-Mart\nApril 15, 2005\nBy Rukmini Callimachi\nThe Associated Press\n\nVANCOUVER, Wash. - After long arguing that its brand would be devalued if it sold in discount chains, Nike has made it to Wal-Mart Stores. But you won't find its trademark swoosh anywhere.\n\nCustomers at more than 400 Wal-Mart stores nationwide can buy a pair of $37.64 Starter sneakers engineered by Nike and introduced last month. The world's largest maker of athletic apparel bought the Starter brand last year with the aim of entering the value end of the retail business.\n\nConsumers purchased about $1.5 billion worth of athletic shoes at discount stores last year - a market Nike has been yearning to tap because it makes up the bulk of unit sales. Seventy percent of the athletic footwear sold in the United States in 2003 cost less than $45, according to market research from NPD Group, cited by Nike.\n\nThe sneaker maker wanted a piece of the market but feared jeopardizing the cachet of its core brand, said Scott Olivet, senior vice president of Nike subsidiaries and new business development. "Nike's positioning is really as a premium performance brand," said Olivet. "And what you always worry about with a brand is extending it too far."\ntop\n\nThe Starter brand, which Nike acquired last August for $43 million, has a working-class image and has been one of the top-selling sneaker brands in Wal-Mart since 2000 when the partnership began. Its shoes sold for around $20, an average price for discount stores.\n\nThe Nike-engineered Starter sneakers, which sport a sleeker design, sell for nearly $40 - far below the $110 tag for a top-of-the-line Nike shoe. But at nearly twice the cost of the sneakers just down the aisle, the new Starter shoe is scraping the ceiling of what many penny-pinching customers are willing to pay. "Price is very important to me because I'm a tightwad," said Pamela Anderson, 50, of Camas, Clark County, who bought a pair of the new Starter sneakers for her 17-year-old son at the Vancouver Wal-Mart.\n\nRevamping the shoe and then offering it at the highest price the value market will bear is vintage Nike, said analyst Jamelah Leddy, who tracks the company for Seattle-based McAdams Wright Ragen. "It's fairly consistent with the Nike image. They're going to be the best in their class, regardless of whether they're competing in high-end fashion on Madison Avenue or in Wal-Mart," Leddy said. Olivet acknowledges that the company is "really pushing it" by offering the shoe at close to $40.\n\nBut Olivet said he and others at Nike spent nearly three years studying the discount world. One of the dynamics they discovered is what he calls the "BMW in the Target parking lot" phenomenon.\n\nDiscount shoppers are evolving, a change that is mirrored in the discount chains' merchandise, he
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Wal-marts,fast food,soft ware,rel-estate,and shoe companies.
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Sneakers are sportshoes like Nike, Adidas etc.
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Name brand stuff is the real "in" thing for us. With shoes we like names like Nike, Adidas. For clothes the most "cool" thing is American Eagle, Aeropostale, GAP, and Old Navy!
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pepsi, skechers, herbal essences...there are probably more but they're the only ones that come to mind
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dude....why do you CARE?...just do it...heh...nike