I want to say that the first pair of Huaraches I ever purchased was in like 2010…shortly after I moved back to California from Brooklyn. The wife and I took a trip back to Brooklyn one summer and I seriously think I picked up 3 pairs of the triple blacks. It was the first pair I ever owned and I didn’t understand the sizing at all. I was/am a size 9, but the first pair the Footlocker associate brought me – a size 9 – looked like a kids shoe. I tried jamming my foot in and ended up sending like 3-4 pairs back until I settled on a size 11. Yes, a SIZE 11. We walked around a bit more that day and made our way back to where we were staying. I took the shoes out the box after having walked around all day and tried them on again. Maybe I bought a size too big. I’ll try them on in the morning.
The next morning, I tried them on and, because my feet weren’t all swollen from walking around all day, they felt huge. I knew I wanted to return them for a smaller size so that was the first thing on the agenda that day. We went to another footlocker where I exchanged them for a 10.5…and this pair, I knew I would be wearing the whole day, so I tossed the box and spent the day on foot with the 10.5.
That day we spent around Flatbush over by my wifes old neighborhood. We went and got some Jerk Chicken and Beef Patties and guineps we hit up the shoe shops on Church Ave. and I realized they still fit kinda weird. So I copped the size 10. Ridiculous.
I spent the next few months trying both and each and trying to figure out what the appropriate sizing was, and eventually decided on the 10. The 10.5’s I sold on eBay but am always a bit iffy with the sizing.
So when I saw a pair of Mowabb ACG’s (the 2007 Mandarins) in a size 10 at @buffaloexchange on Haight Street in San Francisco, I didn’t know if I was buying for myself or to resell on eBay. Plus, I was a bit hesitant on the colorway…I didn’t feel like I could pull them off. But they looked brand new except for this one really big scratch on the toe box. I’m pretty sure I spent $26.50 on them…and I really only bought them because I knew I could re-sell them if I couldn’t get over feeling weird.
