A.I. Image Nano Banana Pro (1 Viewer)

[RobinsonSST]

I agree, although I like the subtlety of smaller holes rather than large patches of missing fabric as they seem more like realistic representations of wear and leave more to the imagination!

Yes, my preference is similar to yours and quite specific when it comes to amount of wear, much like some people love out of the box new, while others like trashed as possible.

If the shoes are pristine, it feels fake like they only have those shoes specifically for that picture, and if not, will blow money and/or throw out or donate perfectly good shoes because of one spec of dirt. Do they just sit around the house all day? On the other end of the spectrum, if the shoes are too trashed, then it feels like they are either trying too hard to be like Golden Goose or to be like some $300 destroyed pair of jeans. Or, it looks like they have other.... problems, where they don't care about their appearance at all. If the shoes show natural wear with small holes and a bit of dirt, like the most common small hole above the big toe where the shoe is still perfectly functional, that is perfect since a ton of crushes when I was a kid had this with their Vans and Keds knock offs. The woman comes across as down to Earth and being herself, while also embracing a reasonably worn pair of shoes for the memories she created in them.

 

[tidybowler]

Though the trashed sneakers on SF are only AI-generated, I welcome the use of the technology for this purpose. Unless there's a fetish site I haven't discovered, online images of people wearing distressed footwear are relatively rare these days. I also don't see many well-used (but still decent looking) sneakers in the wild anymore , compared to 10-20 years ago. I think there's been a culture shift -- and it may be partly due to the abundance of inexpensive knockoffs like those found at Target, Walmart, K-Mart, etc. These shoes have become more disposable; I believe a lot of people use low prices as justification for replacing serviceable shoes that have developed small blemishes/holes through normal use.

Another point: With the proliferation of those insidious no-show socks, you can often determine if someone is truly wearing their sneakers barefoot depending on what you see through even small holes in the fabric...important to those of us who are more highly aroused by this kind of thing.

Am I correct in thinking no-show socks didn't exist until the late 80s/early 90s? When I was in school (70s), the only special women's socks I recall were associated with sports/tennis -- they had those goofy "dingleballs" on the back to minimize slip-down (not necessarily successfully).

 

[Demented]

Though the trashed sneakers on SF are only AI-generated, I welcome the use of the technology for this purpose. Unless there's a fetish site I haven't discovered, online images of people wearing distressed footwear are relatively rare these days. I also don't see many well-used (but still decent looking) sneakers in the wild anymore , compared to 10-20 years ago. I think there's been a culture shift -- and it may be partly due to the abundance of inexpensive knockoffs like those found at Target, Walmart, K-Mart, etc. These shoes have become more disposable; I believe a lot of people use low prices as justification for replacing serviceable shoes that have developed small blemishes/holes through normal use.

Another point: With the proliferation of those insidious no-show socks, you can often determine if someone is truly wearing their sneakers barefoot depending on what you see through even small holes in the fabric...important to those of us who are more highly aroused by this kind of thing.

Am I correct in thinking no-show socks didn't exist until the late 80s/early 90s? When I was in school (70s), the only special women's socks I recall were associated with sports/tennis -- they had those goofy "dingleballs" on the back to minimize slip-down (not necessarily successfully).

Yeah, I remember the 'dingleball' sock as being very american in the 1980's...we were still on calf-length white socks in the uk. (mainly in my dreams)