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Show wee eoess ese sete eset ee esve PESCSCVCSCKC KC Cc HeoPUEtirtds wor LIFE&STYLE fee teteedtec ** SECTION «fs soso DailySHerald B) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2005 LIFE & STYLE EDITOR | Doug Fox - 344-2546 - dfox@heraldextra.com No businesslike Dishing it out: OK, so we havean official proclamation on the booksthat says Provois for- mally renamed “Cougar Town” ‘onthesix days outofthe year whenBrigham Young University has a homefoot- ball game. | What| want | to knowis, “So | | the fetching heck what?!" Whatdo |, as e z | S S INE as since 3, get out S U B E O SH | iie arrange- ment? Andare my tax dollars *being used to fundit? The switch- | ef00 isn't even helping the | football team win games. It Sneakerfreaks pay big prices to stay in step with style certainly wasn't of much benefit | to Bronco and the boys when | Boston College visited. And did it really make ason Hall could go two months wate a difference to Eastern Illinois whetherit got | dragged out behind the wood| shed in Provo or out wearing the samepair ofsl Hehas Dunks for skateboarding, Ait | Jaweed Kaleem DETROIT FREE PRESS Jordans and Air Force Ones for basketball and Air Max Trainers, to name a few —all that he'll wear casually, but careful- Cougar Town? Mypoint | isthat it’s not | too late to sell | ouridentity for ly. He's worn many only onceor twice. They comein combinations of gold and greenandpink and brown, with laces samething that really matters. Like,for exam- that are neon green and bright yellow. , | ple,satellite TV. He's not just somebody witha lot | of shoes. And he doesn’t just buy any pair. They haveto be special. Andrare, Wejust | need another | proclamation like his Lucky Dunks,whichcouldsell that changes the for $700 online. Andhis Cinder Bisons, | nameofthe city to Dish, and every household in which he says could go at $500. Eversincethe athletic shoe market ex- The Municipality ploded in the mid-1980s with releases like the Air Jordan, people have beencollect- Formerly Known ing sneakers. Butnowit’s grown to the point that As Provo/Cougar Towngets a metro Detroit has a store dedicated to limited edition,collectible shoes. Rachel Carroll’s Royal Oak store, Burned Rubber,is projected to sell a half-million satellite receiver | free of charge. | I'm not even | makingthis up. dollars in shoes beforeits one-year anniversary in October. Sixty percent of her customersare collectors. In cities like Los Angeles and New York,there are sneaker summer marked the debut of ESPN2’s “It's the Shoes”(12:30 a.m. Tuesdays), hosted by sneaker guru Bobbito Garcia that takes viewersinto the shoe collections ofcelebrities like basketball player Allen Iverson and hip-hopstar Nelly. Sneakercultureis inseparable from sports and rap culture. There are even JasonHall, 31,of Detroit, Michigan, with about three-quarters of his sneakercollection. = ' bookson the topic. Onereleased this month, some of which hefinds during year is “Sneakers: The Complete Collecthe four hours a day he spends on Web tors’ Guide “ (Thames & Hudson, $29.95), sites like eBay and NikeTalk,an online written by UnorthodoxStyles, a British discussion board. Most of the shoes he group that produced www.crookedbuysoriginally retailed for around $125, tongues.com,a collecting Website. althoughhe refuses to reveal how much Hall says he buys about sevenpairs a he’s paid for his shoes, most of which he EchoStar Communications RICHARD LEE/Detroit Free Press He buys about seven new pairs a month. caeoe bought in stores. Somepeople wouldcall Hall a sneakerhead. Others could be morejarring and say he’s a sneakerfreak. “I'm just a guy wholoves shoes,” says See SNEAKERS, B2 | | | | Corp., ownerof theDish satellite network,will breakout the free booty for any city in America that agrees to renameitself Dish by Nov. 1. Thereports I've seen are a little hazy about someofthe | e ‘ : ¥ arrangement. h E 9 e For example, dothe residents ofDish getfree CONDITION: Unworn, mint condition sneakers are called deadstock andre the Design: Advanced technology makes a shoe more desirable. For example, the _hedidn't wear, says Robert Paxton,a RoyalOak, Mich., collector who owns almost 50pairs of Air Jordans. dozenpairs per model. help, too. The more you'wear a shoe, the fess value it has. which gets sneakerheads on their toes. Color scheme:Air Jordans with colors —_Rarity: Rarity is the No. 1 factor determining whethera shoe is collectible. Imports: Some shoes are released only abroad, and can be morecollectible most valuable. The original shoebox will ‘Age:Vintage shoes,such as unwom 1985 Air Jordans, are hot. Shoes more than a decade old are typically considered vintage. leather on some shoes is laser-engraved, Michael Jordan wore with the Chicago Bulls — suchasoriginalred and black — are more collectible than those —_—_—Rare shoes are described as “quick strikes,” meaning a limited edition shoe modelof which 3;000 or fewer exist. “Hyperstrikes” are producedforspecific people or shops — sometimes just a few simply because few peoplein the U.S. have them. . A pat ae vet firemen flboras(t coral pleats A finerpoints in the proposed rons to too e hothotfortor thethe kitch kitcnen eran, get free recep- tion? And would we have to sign | a48-month ser- es ae aPabee and mekett for just four years? One thing's for certain. Wecan keep watching BYU lose every other football game on ‘our crappy local cable setup in Cougar Town. Or Sse tetany | wecan get with peoplecan at Janelle Erlichman Diamond ‘THE WASHINGTONPOST ABellini designer and Joanna Ramani ($35, at meghannandjo.com). Mom was cooking inthe kitchen. (This was beforeall those bulkprice mini-quiches at Costco, and women’slib.) While stirring, simmering and sauteing she’d wear her practical apron, says Cheney. Thenshe'dslip into her hostess versionto serve the food and nee retro babes hada different apron to go withevery dress. Ahh, it was a simplertime, when women frequently received matching aprons as gifts. “They were clearly fashion accessories,” says Cheney.“Andthat’s what they are The apron is less function, more fun these days:Little halfsies with glowing prints and rickrack, de-loop trim, ruffles or contrasting bows. Aprons no longer must be i from the waist as the doorrings. “The hostesses in the 50s were hip to that,” says Joyce Cheney, author of “Aprons:Icons of the American Home.” WI was having cocktails with the guests, JULIEA EWAN/The Washington Post ' _ 7) WWWHHERALDEXTRA,COM 395-5103 — ah now.” least change the Like the boutonniere on a prom channelin the date, the apron signifies: I’m the third quarter and important one, your dinner party —_| watch original cruise director. * series “Battle“Maybe you eat takeout — whatstar Galactica” ever — six nights a week,” says reruns, or even Cheney.“But on the seventh mayall-new episodes, be you havepeople over and have of “Are You something really fancy — you've Hot? The Search got to have an outfit.” for America’s Nowadays, she adds, some Sexiest People” aprons “are made out of material with Lorenzo and at prices that you wouldn't Lamas, want anywherenear the kitchen.” That, and ; cl |