a bogan rolled me for my sneaks
Image - Nike Tuned - Color: Black-Mystic Red-Kumquat
on A quiet sunday afternoon on the train ride home, head back eyes closed, ‘BEATS noise cancelling headphones’ had me drifting away to the heavy bass of a Massive Attack remix album I was streaming from ‘that’ podcast ‘that’ celebrity told me about on insta… Having thoroughly enjoyed a full day of retail therapy in the ‘Junction’.
I had my ‘Carhartt’ chinos on, a vintage ‘Westwood’ tee and the mohair ‘Kangol’ bucket hat, feet were resplendid in my brand new ‘Nike NT’s’ in the classic Black-Mystic Red-Kumquat colour way. it Doesn’t get more put together than this…
Then out of the blue, I had one arm round my throat and 2 bogans down there at my feet ripping off my Nike NT’s !!!!
F#$K! OFF BOGANS I yelled! while onlookers just buried their heads deeper into their shiny new ‘iPhone 12 Pros’. The bogANs were gone in flash along with my shoes. As I muttered and swore under my breath… a bit of a bogan, who happened to be sitting across the ailse from me, lent over and said “not bogans mate ‘Eshays’” as if I’d hurt his feelings.
I now correctly exclamied, ‘F*@#ing ESHAYS!’ then sank back in my seat defeated, but glad that they hadn’t taken the ‘beats noise cancelling’ headphones too. I tried to calm myself with a round of ‘Animal Crossing’ on my ‘Nintendo Switch’ and deep gulp of my ‘bubble iced tea’
Killara station couldn’t get here fast enough!!!
True story, well the part about getting rolled by Eshays
By Stuart G
A typical eshay sports a sharp contemporary mullet.
“The eshay is considered by some as the sickest crew around and by others a scourge on society. This generally male youth subculture is the Australian equivalent of the British chavs or roadmen. The culture and accompanying aesthetic came out of the low-income housing estates of inner Sydney and Melbourne.”
It’s a popular look among young people who feel they’ve been dealt a tough hand. Of course, like any alternative group, there are also posers. That’s why it’s not uncommon to find many eshays with extremely privileged backgrounds.
Writing a story, is very much like getting dressed. We can set out on our day in a way that will have an effect. I understand, If I were to wear MC Hammer balloon pants in metallic hot pink fabric, I will be snickered at, pointed at, maybe even confronted. I can write the expected story of my days interactions before I’ve even gotten out of the shower.
The products we wear on our bodies have such power over how we are perceived. how others react to us. the types of jobs we may get, or get turned down for… The tribes we belong too and scarily
how positively or negatively we feel about ourselves.
Who knew the Nike NT was the shoe du jour for the aussie version of the Chav…