One of my favorite sneakers ever. I had them in high school and I would always get asked if they were Jordans. haha...

Sal Barbier is a legend. And his sneakers? They’ve basically reached iconic status in terms of skate-shoes....

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/07/29/etnies-sal-23/

One of the pre cursors to daba diaries ever involved Etnies. Well, sorta...

I must've been around 16 and I had gone to this skateboard demo in this town that was like 45 minutes away. I knew like two kids there but that was it. Anyways, there was this one group of kids and they had girls with them! WTF I thought. Girls like skateboarders in other towns? Not only that but these girls were pretty and one in particular was ridiculously hot. I kept thinking of something to say but nothing came up. She was blonde and had on these turquoise Etnies. I totally wussed out and probably wrote about it in a journal. Stuff like this probably made me start becoming more social and birthed daba diaries.