Discussion Keds Actual keds vs knockoffs (1 Viewer)

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I agree with your sentiments. This also happens with Converse knockoffs. There are various tags a poster can select to flag knockoff shoes, although the easiest thing to do is include "knockoffs" in the post title. In defense of posts that aren't properly tagged, often it's difficult to verify a genuine name-brand sneaker if the content doesn't include a good closeup at an advantageous angle -- and some people just don't spend time on details before posting.
 
I'm not sure if anyone else feels like me in this forum, but when I see a post that says "(insert name) in keds" and open it up and they aren't wearing actual Keds, you feel rather disappointed.

Curious on others thoughts and how people should properly tag their posts.
I agree but like already said it's not always easy to tell. We also have some adult studios cutting off or covering the blue label.
 
I love em both! Just want them to be the canvas, champion style/vans style. They both can be so super sexy! There is something about a hot chick wearing cheap $10 dollar canvas tennies! SO HOT! Of course Keds are the best, but give me knockoffs over EVERY other style of shoe on the planet! GOD awful nike AF1's, buffalos, boots and sandals. All 100% disgusting!
 
I am not that picky as long as the knock off resembles what it is referring to. The only time I get irritated is if people mix up name brands that are blatantly visible with very few photos to analyze, like where this one mainstream media piece called Superga Keds. Those are nothing alike. It's like they are trying to use Keds as a blanket term for canvas sneaker, like Kleenex for facial tissue. It might also be regional and cultural, too, like certain parts of the southern USA calling all soft drinks a coke, I'm not from a southern state, so that confuses me. The midwest calls it pop, and other places call it soda. Allen wrenches are a name brand, but the name is used to refer to hex wrenches. Saran wrap is brand name used interchangeably for a plastic wrap, you get the idea.

It is also a lot of work to track the photos down and post them if there are 100+ photos of randoms, let alone sorting them all out. It's still way more effort than many people including me do here. Even if it is the same photo set, some studios/models use a combination of knockoffs and name brands, like if they use white knock offs because they'll replace them if they get dirty anyways, while using name brands in darker colors.
 
For me the knockoffs do very little. For the majority it’s pretty easy to tell that difference and I’m always disappointed when they’re not actual Keds. Ideally I’m looking for the white leather champions, but I’m happy with the canvas too. Just as long as it’s the name brand!!
 

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