Where'd You Get Those? 10th Anniversary Edition: New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972592083 ISBN 13: 9780972592086

Publisher: Testify Books, 2014

Synopsis

The 10th-anniversary updated edition of the definitive book on the rise of sneakers and sneaker culture

The mother of all sneaker books is finally back in print, in an expanded edition. Upon its initial publication in 2003, Where’d You Get Those? was hailed by Vanity Fair as “The perfect primer on the sole of pop culture … a much needed compendium.” The New Yorker raved that “Garcia’s book is an anthropological trove,” while the New York Post noted that “Where’d You Get Those? is a must.” Vogue gushed: “Garcia chronicles the gym shoe’s rise to cultural prominence with obsessive detail … Where’d You Get Those? is a welcome addition to New York cultural history.” Paper magazine called it “The definitive book on the rise of sneaker fanaticism,” and Time Out New York hailed it as “a rhapsodic, comprehensive chronicle.” Documenting more than 400 pairs of sneakers in a highly illustrated, chronological format, Where’d You Get Those? is simply a stone cold classic. Sneakers are fetishized by consumers worldwide, and dozens of subsequent sneakers books have come and gone, but none have come close to attracting the readership and unfettered adulation that this book has enjoyed. (Carnegie Mellon University even offers a class, Sneakerology 101, that uses Where’d You Get Those? as its main textbook.) Updates to the new edition include new sneakers inaugurated into the canon, as well as a new foreword, introduction and afterword.

Edition details

• Publisher: Testify Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0972592083
• ISBN 13: 9780972592086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 280