Clarks and New York: Soles of The City

[@zionnegus8760]

Jamaicans been rocking Clarks since the 70s and when many migrated to NYC they continued the tradition.

[@yaadmanjev7171]

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[@saliro80]

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[@3NYC3]

The 70’s ??? WAY BEFORE THAT!! and before Clarks it was another brand I forgot the name that was being worn in the 30’s and 40’s

[@ballazballaz]

Go and Watch the Jamaican version it interesting too

[@MrAmenta2]

I'm an OG, class of 85', we were rocking wallabies back in 83' in high school. I have amast a collection of at least 12 pairs of wallabies in all colors. Just copped a low top purple suede on sale for 75 bucks, couldn't pass that up, and still gonna keep looking for more. Long live Clark's Wallabies!!.

[@dvnnybling9815]

This was a sick watch. Need more content like this from brands!

[@MrShinobi797]

I first encountered the Wallabee in the mid 90s as a teenager in High school...I fell in love with it's silhouette. Today I'm in my 40s and Clarks Wallabee are my “ Go To " .

[@VZAAGE]

Glaciers of Ice was the first time I became hip to Clarks.

[@DippedInInk]

Wu made the Wally Clark’s wit the drip fly.

[@jeevandhape7551]

Iconic 🙌🏽

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

Long live the *Wall-O* timeless classic.

[@Ilovechicago100]

Ghostface…..brought them back to the forefront in the music / fashion industry with the different color mixtures. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@SDSOverfiend]

Give Jamaicans the just due on this cultural phenomenon in NYC. Clarks, Bally’s and Travel Fox had the game on tilt.

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

🫡

[@MrShinobi797]

Travel Fox were the SHIT 🐺

[@djr.an.s4070]

I own a lot of clark wallabees. Shout out to Clark’s wallabees and jadakiss voice 🔥

[@AALTERR]

Crazy rich history I didn’t know about, great presentation and care to tell the story.

[@Daybreakhasme]

In the Midwest, we called them "Hustlas". Salute GFK, whole WU and The world.

[@kevinearle8955]

The only shoe brand i wear. There are Clarks for every occasion.

[@MrRuhi2]

🇯🇲WALLABEE🇯🇲 LIVE FROM VA! Mi closet shelf full up! Manners & Respect! From JA to NYC to VA to NC !

[@kJ922-h3j]

I love how Wallabees have infiltrated so many different areas and cultures but people always ignore what was going on with them in actual Britain itself lol. In the “Mod” fashion scene in the 60s, the mix of british and Jamaican culture in a lot of the music that came out of the U.K. in the 70s and early 80s and then what we know as the “Britpop” bands of the 90s too

[@NyabsinoFyles]

The culture, a good documentary

[@djgreenhornet2892]

Salute Clarks, NYC, Rochester, NY and Hip-Hop.

[@TheBohemianRooster]

Clarks are the best 🙌

[@shawnsteed4140]

I will always wear Clarks Wallabees, but I wanna start trying on British Walkers as well 💯

[@GeorgeTuli-c1v]

Rocking them in New Zealand since day 1 🔥

[@AhmedFrhoda]

good ❤

[@mayoritodo9465]

Jadas voice is a solidification of this video

[@CarlosHernandez-rl2wg]

The dopest shoe. I can wear it casually or to a business meeting. They basically go with almost anything. Plus they feel light on your feet.

[@queenearth2658]

Man growing up in the South we called em hush puppies, you seen them on older men and the kids that needed more support on their feet. They were also the Sunday go meeting shoes you only pulled them out on special occasions. Love our era!! Hip hip oh yea that's where my hearts at frfr.

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

Same here… in Louisiana we called them hush puppies too

[@greggorman3656]

@@DivinefrequenciesXL i’m in BR and about to buy my first pair of wallabees. got anymore history of them about them here?

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

@@greggorman3656 in the 90s we wore them right along with eastlands boots with khakis and a plaid shirt, a herringbone chain, and a fly ass bald fade. The wallabee style became a part of Louisiana hip-hop rap community… (*no limit soljahs) around the mid to late 90s. Inspired by Ghostface Killah.

[@greggorman3656]

@@DivinefrequenciesXL hell yeah bro i appreciate the knowledge

[@CesarSanchezfool]

Best video on KZbin.

[@coohcatcoohcatgroup3566]

Had the "Clarks" in "fort greene catholic school" early 80's!

[@davidscott3726]

Jamaicans been wearing Clarks since late 60s

[@ryanbates7166]

I'm from Brooklyn Maryland Baltimore Maryland and the first time I ever saw a pair of Walla's was Ghostface and that album cover and I was like the first person and my hood to rock a pair and I could not find them anywhere. like getting to New York was not a thing I was 14 it was 1994 and no stores sold Clarks. let alone a two-tone color pair so like the first pair I had where some pea green leather high tops and a pair of yellow leather high tops and I found them in like a old dress shoe store in the middle of the city. now I mean you can get them online like nothing but people tried clowning me like it what the f*** is that you wearing but my peoples from New York knew what the deal was . ... thanks Ghost 💯💯

[@CarlosHernandez-rl2wg]

It was tough to score these a number of years back. Before I could get the official ones, I actually had a Lugz pair in highschool. One kid used to refer to them as "duck shoes". I eventually found a small store that sold them and bought both a brick red and a sand color as my first 2 pairs. Nowadays I have a good number of pairs. The colorways and textures just keep on coming. Glad they came out with a Wu edition as they were one of the reasons I became hooked on copping them.

[@ryanbates7166]

@@CarlosHernandez-rl2wg I had the Lugz ones too lol your right before I found that shop in like the middle of the city I had bought a pair of purple lugz Wallebees

[@CarlosHernandez-rl2wg]

@@ryanbates7166 I actually bought my Wallabee Lugz from a JCPenney catalog.

[@briansmith9959]

Yo Ryan, I served in the Navy with some cats from B-more around that time they rocked Clarks. I knew about Clarks from the Jamaicans down here in Miami...we were wearing them in the '80's....we could them like anywhere '80's and 90's especially the flea markets....I actually had low cut suede blue/brown and low cut green/brown and all green suede around '90-'91...those were the days!!!

[@ryanbates7166]

@@briansmith9959 Damn, I was 13 in 93 so I was young but still had style and the flea market here wasn't as evolved as it was in say 2000. In 2000 they had knock off everything lol. It was so bad it was raided twice in 5 years. So yeah it was hard for me too find Walle's back then. Shit now there everywhere! Thank for the response💯

[@BadgerBJJ]

The best beaters are anything skate style or Ivy style… Vans, Chucks, Sperry, Stan Smiths or my favorite beater Le Coq Sportif running or tennis shoes.

[@ryanbates7166]

There's a guy on IG that Ghostface did a collab with those Wallebees are sick! Blue ostrich skin leather /Cream Wu symbol stamped on the heel they was limited too so many pair's I missed my shot but they GRAILS for real. again thanks Ghost for bringing them joints too the forefront. also if you get a chance check out the pair of Asics mt2 extra butter burgundy joints that goes did a collab with they called a 6X extra butter X Ghostface Killah

[@goodmanfilife]

'Sycamore Style'

[@ryanbates7166]

@@goodmanfilife Thanks !

[@saliro80]

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[@kool_onanotherlevel]

Clarks! Dope then! Dope now! Just think I can cop a pair. Put'em on & walk out the store. No lines, no raffle, no bullshit!

[@Marvin-ut4xs]

Is there a store in NYC that sells them. I don't want to buy them online

[@rashiidalmahdi3830]

London gave birth to Clark's. Jamaica loved the desert Booth but Bklyn raised the wallabies since the sixty. NYC made them worldwide the empire state of fashion. The guy speaking in the beginning was right Dana Dane was rock the wallabees early that is a fort Greene bklyn style. I know Im from fort Greene bklyn I was one of those guys rocking the wallabees back then and forever shalom.

[@claudiajames2515]

You are right and exact I grew up in Brooklyn And south Jamaica rap just made them go viral The fly bally boots wallabees and playboys ❤

[@heavenscent56]

AWESOME DOCUMENTARY 🎬👟 Kudos TRISTAN👏🎬

[@bigsteve6729]

My Clarks are sick I love them

[@irvsantana8227]

This was dope !!!

[@peacecrewproducts]

Clarks is actually a London to Kingston thing so NY is third when it comes to Clark’s. Facts

[@donchego369]

Yah man....when clarks you say jamaica 🇯🇲

[@MrRuhi2]

@@donchego369 manners🇯🇲

[@BE-bk1tb]

Just because something originated somewhere doesn’t mean that’s the place where they became popular. 🇯🇲

[@amalizbhali4393]

There was a Jamaican Documentary few months ago and the Jamaican themed shoes are still available for purchase.

[@peacecrewproducts]

@@amalizbhali4393 I saw that

[@TeeRock70]

Just bought me a pair

[@jameskent2925]

DOPE!

[@ReggaeceL]

You forgot about to mention the greatest clarks influencer of all time. Vybz Kartel awoh "Mi nuh love crepe, enuh, Clarks mi prefer Clarks fi di leather, yeah, Clarks fi di fur Clarks fi di summer, Clarks fi di winter Clarks fi di sun, Clarks fi di water Mi nuh wear Nautica (No), dat ah fi sailor Polo fi Tiger, him ah di golfer Di new Wallabees hotter dan sulfur Mi pattern mi daddy from mi was a youngster"

[@franriding6473]

The were big in the uk in the late 80s rave scene. I remember girls rocking purple ones.

[@michellereid3691]

Clarks shoes to the world.

[@RobinHood-us7sg]

Here since 95 thanks to Liam Gallagher (Oasis) and Richard Ashcroft (The Verve)

[@najibelkihel]

Anyone knows the song that starts at 03:25?

[@BrassCityFilms]

Anyone got a link for the wallabees at the 11:00 Mark

[@Sswimrbowtiebarber]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jessek437]

WALLEEES!!

[@yaadmanjev7171]

Clarks makes life ⚖

[@fabiankeen7011]

Jamaicans introduced Clark's to the hood get it real talk.

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

Dope how they included that.

[@uni_verse4926]

Clarks 🇬🇾

[@dexterroberts631]

GT!!!

[@strictlyrealhiphop]

ALL YOU DYE

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

Got it drippin like Marble Cake 🔥🔥

[@WavyTV473]

I wanna do a collaboration for my country in the future … 🇬🇩

[@rasheensmith6908]

I have like 8 pairs 😎😎😎

[@3NYC3]

JAMAICAN JORDAN’s

[@KSUBIKAYY]

BAHR!

[@ronnieturner3110]

Yeah but the '90s ghostface killah Wu-Tang clan made them popular I don't care who invented them I don't care who start walking first but you cannot mention without Ghost face killer and the Wu-Tang clan.

[@claudiajames2515]

Preach ❤😅

[@gothergriffin1580]

If you nah seh Clarks you nah seh nutting

[@kestergomes1257]

🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

[@jahakarto711]

I guess a lot of you don't want to give the respect and credit to the jamaican who started the hip hop culture And the wearing of the clarks shoe in the culture.

[@goodmanfilife]

Rae and Ghost acknowledged that in the video.

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

Because Jamaicans did not start hip-hop culture.

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

Jamaicans only went crazy over the desert boot the wallaby is a BlackAmerican favorite

[@goodmanfilife]

@@DivinefrequenciesXL ... As a Jamaican, I'll say that's 'partly' true.

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

@@goodmanfilife 💯

[@sinjinsmythe883]

just like Doc Martins and Vans known for being hard to wear out, Clarks, the moment they got popular the quality went away for profit

[@INEYEDP]

Exactly dam shame how bad the quality have gotten the crepe sole isn’t even one piece no more wtf 🤬

[@DivinefrequenciesXL]

I think the quality is back I just purchased a pair today from DSW.

[@kenneththompson6710]

promosm

[@buzoff4642]

Remarkably poor extremely limited choices of where to find Clarks shoes, for such well made shoes.

[@user-ps1zx5ge8w]

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[@coolandgood0062]

They look way too young to be talking about the wallabees and hiphop like that

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

... nani?

[@triyuga]

Love Wallabees but these hiphop guys are big time try hards

[@AleksandarPanic-u2j]

New York isn't center of the world,sorry NY is assholl of the world !😢

[@CesarSanchezfool]

Best video on KZbin.