Category: Style + Life
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Car Wash: A CYS x Benchmark Experience
Bringing in a new experience and staple to Portland, Clean Your Shoes and Benchmark present Car Wash, a recurring sneaker cleaning service at Benchmark where you can bring in your kicks and treat them to a much deserved cleaning. Also serving as a way to showcase and debut our new…
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I’m In A New Sneakerhead Era
I recently saw a video of a woman talking about how she is in “new sneakerhead era”, with the gist of the video being that she doesn’t have FOMO on releases anymore, she trimmed down her collection, and she wears what she likes now because she realizes she wears the…
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The Case For Less Sneakers (Or, You Can Still Have Too Many Sneakers)
Hi, it’s J-Play again, with a friendly reminder that you can have absolutely too many sneakers. As spring turns to summer out here in The United States, many of us partake in a traditional purge of our material things commonly referred to as “Spring Cleaning.” For sneakerheads, fashionistas, <insert collectible…
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It’s Still More Than Just Sneakers
As we start to put the pandemic behind us (COVID-19 is very real and still a thing, don’t get it twisted), societies and communities have opened up again. This of course depends on what part of the world you live in, you may or may not still have to wear…
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Hype Collabs Are Boring
Yet you’re still buying them. And you heard it here first. Well, that’s easy for you to say, J: you’ve had Off-White, Yeezy & Bape collabs, so you’re straight. I had the white Presto from the Polar Opposites pack, that is true, and I resold it about a year later.…