PUMA graced us with the Disc System. Reebok offered the Insta Pump and the Air Rift was a gift from Nike. Run-DMC went the inmate route and ditched the laces altogether, meanwhile most of us are waiting for our Power Laces until 2015! Following our ‘The Good, Mad & The Fugly’ retrospective in issue 22, we take the Mean Machine for a journey deep into the archives to uncover the wackiest ways to keep kicks attached to your feet!

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