Shouting out to a blog from James

By 阿杜.Steward
Shanghai

Hi, folks. I am making this post to 1) quoting a post 2) let you know a cool blog that I've been following for long-> IspyShanghai.

About IspyShanghai:I spy Shanghai is a blog created by James, who's from England now working as expat in Shanghai. He uses his blog as his way to help people(especially foreigners) know Shanghai/China better. I was impressed with his blog because he actually developed interesting insights(eg. how to avoiding being cheated by Taxi Driver... ) about the ins and outs of Shanghai !OK, y'all know that I'm really big on publicizing resources that you might enjoy,especially when they're provided by friends of mine, so I encourage you to check James' latest post about Feiyue on his [Shoe Tuesday Series] - >LINK.

Below is the quoted content from Jaems' post


---Shoe Tuesday / FeiYuesday---

Way back in the midsts or 2008 I bought a pair of shoes from a street vendor outside the fabric market.

They looked good and were kind of, almost my size if I didn’t wear laces and curled up my toes a bit. For 20RMB I wasn’t too fussy.

Fei Yue

Now I realise that what I’d bought was a fake pair of a great and glorious part of Shanghai’s past: Fei Yue shoes.

FeiYue is what you would have worn to play out in the street if you were born in Shanghai in the 70s, and at least amongst kitschy type westerners and the odd cool Chinese they’re making a comeback.

When my workmate saw the photo of these shoes he said that he heard they were big amongst the type of people who wear Che Guevera t-shirts. Not something I would do, but it’s definitely in the right ballpark.

At the shop on 585 Zun Yi Lu they’ve got your Fei Yue, they’ve got your Warriors (another old Chinese brand) and they’ve got some Converse and miscellaneous tat too.

Other tat in the bargain bin

I was almost tempted by what seemed to be an officially endorsed Beatles.

Branded up Beatles shoes

I asked the lady if she had any colour other than fricking horrible, but sadly she did not.

Dingle has already written about this store at great length- with maps and the full 9 yards. More information and more of the shoes on offer can be seen there.

Dingle and lady friend

It was he and his lady friend (wearing matching red Warriors I might add) that gave me the directions to the shop.