Whether You Like It Or Not
This is no joke. Zubaz are back:
From a friend that helped build the website and develop the market strategy:
"The two founders basically bought out Worldwide rights to the name and started a new company. They're located in Little Canada. [We're marketing to] pretty much everyone. We started thinking football fans, but so many people were interested that we just opened it up to the wider world. I think true football fans are at the core, but pretty much everyone loves (and hates) them."
Oh. Hell. No.
I beg to differ.
Somebody might be making them again, but they are not "back."
We've finally recovered from high-cuffed jeans, and are clawing our way away from those gawd-awful bubble skirts. Can we just have a couple of years this decade without any hideous fashion mistakes?
Posted by: Dave | November 07, 2007 at 10:49 PM
As fond as I am of K, I cannot approve of this abomination.
Posted by: Marchelle | November 08, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Say it ain't so!!! End of the universe I tell ya!
Posted by: Matthew Hegge | November 08, 2007 at 10:29 AM
They aren't just back, they're from the future! The copyright on their site is 2008.
Posted by: Sharyn | November 08, 2007 at 02:02 PM
It was going to happen regardless of my involvement. People demanded them.
It's like the secret Kennedy mistresses, everyone knows they existed, but nobody wanted to talk about them. Secretly, they wanted to know all about the salacious details of their escapades. Nobody would admit to it 'cept when they were randomly left in ditches -- sinking beneath 10 feet of water (minor details).
I can't tell you how much fun E has wandering around the house in Zubaz. I've never seen someone so happy in my entire life. And in every color ...
Posted by: Mike | November 08, 2007 at 02:05 PM
I hope they make a pair that you can stare at till you see an object like a ship with dolphins jumping out of the water. Crazy ship illusion pants. I can't wait to get mine, then I'm going to become a chef.
Posted by: mplsman | November 08, 2007 at 03:48 PM
Don't forget your Crocs.
Posted by: Alexis | November 08, 2007 at 08:31 PM
Gee, at first I thought the website was a gag -- can't wait to forward to a few friends of mine.
Posted by: MOM | November 09, 2007 at 06:30 AM
Crocs? If you're going to wear Zubaz, you might as well go all out and get the checker-board Vans while you're at it.
Stuff that was ugly when it was new should never become retro.
Never.
Posted by: Dave | November 10, 2007 at 06:22 AM
I've been rocking the slip-on Vans since I was but a youth; currently the black and white polka dot variety.
Posted by: Alexis | November 10, 2007 at 08:08 PM
Polka dots are timeless. I would never give you grief about that.
The checkerboards, on the other hand, should stay in the 80s where they belong.
Posted by: Dave | November 10, 2007 at 09:57 PM
Awe. They're not carrying the leopard print ones. Those used to be my favorite.
Posted by: taulpaul | November 18, 2007 at 10:25 AM