Ugh. Can we please keep Blogtown free of this kind of post? So what if some people really like sneakers? Who cares if Marjorie "doesn't get it?" This is stupid, I don't even care about sneakers but I can understand why people do. BLECH.

It's really a combination of things.... while you remember what shoes someone was wearing, or probably have multiple pairs of shoes that to a layperson would look incredibly similar, each of them serves a stylistic purpose to you, and you've made some connection with them.

Sneaker collecting takes that exact thing, and combines it with a more traditional collecting attitude, or fanaticism. (see comics, records, coins, books, whatever) in that the more rare something is, the more desirable it is. As the first commenter mentioned, a large number of people waiting in lines such as this to get sneakers (and as a sneaker collector I agree with you, I don't get it. they're ugly and I hate them.) are doing so on speculation that the time they put into waiting on line will produce a large amount of cash for them on ebay from someone who didn't spend the time to get them firsthand.

When I was 16 years old I slept in front of the Paramount (now the Schnitz) for *two* nights to get front row seats for Devo. And I'm still embarrassed about it. Two nights? Stupid kid! (To top it off, my girlfriend got arrested an hour before the doors opened for drinking beer. Kinda ruined the show for me.)

The upshot is, they're idiots. Now, if the shoes were made out of BEEF JERKY...

P. T. Barnum had it right.

Maybe several people in town, though, would sleep in front of the Schnitzer for a couple of nights if it meant they could go back to 1981 to catch a Devo show. "Midnight in Portland"? 1981 tip: don't buy the red microdot, it's just a bit of plastic.

Blame W+K.

sorry, ugly is ugly. If you like it then you like an ugly sneaker. I applaud your liking it (if you do). It takes all kinds and if we all agreed then the world would be a duller place. So go ahead and like this ugly sneaker (if you do).

It looks like a unicorn turd. Would anyone wait in line for a week to buy a unicorn turd?

Yes they would.