Quite happily payed full price for mine 3 times now. OG gum sole black suede, 2 x whites and got black leather in sales which I’ve got to be honest are the booby prize sadly.

and then you will thank LFC

GATs have surely been killed off with that M&S release, atleast in the original colour? Was bad enough them Adidas versions.

I would say they are more comfy though to be fair.

Margiela GATS and Bballs are such different styles they can't really be compared. Only thing linking them is they're both expensive trainers.

Was going to write the exact same thing.



It doesn’t reduce the quality but the reason I like buying nice trainers is so that when I go out no one else will be wearing them, which is pretty easy to do in my area.

I don’t want to be stood behind Steve in the queue at Asda in my Margiela gats staring at his Marksy’s version thinking I could of saved £250. It’s the exclusivity argument really(again in my area, I’ve never ever seen anyone in anything like we’d see here in fuk or say instagram pages).

This may come across as shallow and probably is but that’s my view on it.

GATS are like cons imo nothing will change that they're a classic, almost un-ruinable.

Do it mate, they’ll pop up somewhere else in the sales soon

does anyone bother with shoe trees? they actually make a diff?

I've fancied GATs for a while but haven't yet been able to justify the coin (CP's taken priority), so got the adi-Gats instead. They are ok - wear in a bit shit around the toe area, although mines are probably half a size big. I had a look at the M&S versions today - quality looks dubious and not real leather.

What's the sizing like in the suede boots? I'm like 44 in achilles, 11(46) in nike.