Pre-Orders Open For New, High Fashion Pokémon Clothing Line From Irregular Choice

Wow, for that price I could afford gas and electricity!

Damn, the prices, but how much it would cost without brand or with still cheap brand exactly made shoes then? And I really want buy at least a pair immediately, but current prices are extremely to expensive to me with my current living/life situation.

These don't even look good. This is way too on the nose. Could be fun if you're going to a convention but I like my gaming clothes to be a little more subtle. A little Pokéball logo, an Eevee silhouette, a yellow hoodie with Pikachu's brown back stripes, stuff like that. These things are way too busy for my tastes.

I'm pretty sure this is just 2000's Pokemon clothing for children in adult sizes.

So I think the focus needs to be:

1) $300 is not a lot of money for a pair of shoes. Either way you go, fashion conscious or well made, you're going to hit $300 as soon as you get anywhere near a real premium brand.

2) You're ummm ... not supposed to ware these. Like you'll build an outfit around them and ware that outfit once or twice a year, but these are not shoes you walk around in ... which is why it's not really that bad a thing that these look like they would be anywhere from inconvenient and painful to flat out impossible to actually walk in ...

3) The style choice here is obviously "this is my first day of kindergarten and mom bought me something godie to make me feel safe, like I have my favourite toy with me". That's ummm ... a bold decision? It really speaks to Pokémon for me; one of the key differences about being an adult in Japan vs. the west is that in the west you're expected to "grow up" and stop enjoying everything associated with childhood. Pokémon has always bridged the gap between generations, but while in Japan you can get away with a dress shirt with a subtle pattern on it as a 50 year old dad, In the west maybe something that makes the statement "Yeah, I like this KIDS thing, come at me bro" is still what you need to do.

Either way, this is a solid example of how we should stop using words like "good" to mean "something for me, the way I would want it" and "bad" to mean anything else. I think these are a lot of people who are going to find extreme value in this, not just as fashion but as in a way of identifying themselves as something who just regrets having to give up all the "kid stuff" to get a day job and settle down. So fantastic! I'm really happy these exists for them, and I'm happy a company is making them.

Ya know, despite the fact that my personal instinct is to KILL IT WITH FIRE.

It's cool. It's not for me. And that's fine.

I have two pairs of Irregular Choice shoes, i think the people talking about price are looking at these and thinking they’re like normal shoes, they are not, these shoes are more like collectables. I wear mine like once per year and other times they’re on show on my drawers like a collectable would be, not stashed away like my other shoes.

Yeah... yuck. Way too garish, which in turn makes them look cheap and nasty, like the bootleg crap you can pick up at any market.

Loungefly has made much nice Pokémon bags.