Last month I posted on legendary rock n roll hall of fame singer Neil Young as a 4 stripe man. Here's another piece of 4 stripe bootleg sneaker history. In the opening credits of the 1979 cult classic movie 'The Warriors' one of the gangs is wearing some 4 stripe sneakers at the 2:56 marker in this video…
These were likely Kmart Trax or Sears The Winner II brand but could also be Bob Wolf brand sneakers.
Going through the rest of the movie most of the sneakers shown are Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars. Most of The Orphans are wearing Converse and Puma but one guys in their gang has a pair of bootleg sneakers that look like a hollowed out Puma logo…
These sneakers might be either Kobe brand or Mark 5 brand.
Outside of that there are a bunch of other fast paced scenes that make it difficult to ID the sneakers…
From the still photo shoot images it looks like the Baseball Furies were wearing some yellow and black LD-1000 model runners.
Based on this photo it looks like the costume designer spray painted over the yellow nylon and Nike swoosh logo on the sides of the old yellow and orange LD-1000s.
For more info on The Warriors I’d suggest to pop over to the very awesome website Warriorsmovie.co.uk.
One last disclaimer… all movie stills and video clips displayed above are done so through “fair use” for blogging and journalistic purposes and are copyright of their respective copyright holders.