

The GAT design is generally attributed to Adidas, and an Adidas spokesperson confirmed that the company designed a trainer, called the BW-Sport, that the Federal German Army issued its men and women in the ’80s and ’90s. I soon realized the has more conflicting histories than the Caucasus.
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Paying homage to the sneaker is Luke Leitch of The Wall Street Journal, recounting a love affair with the clean design that began on MR PORTER and has garnered him praise from the famously sneaker-hating Manolo Blahnik. Beginning its life as standard issue military footwear for the standing forces of the Germany army before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Army Trainer has gone on to quietly creep into the modern fashion vocabulary with its lack of pretentiousness and agreeable off-white upper and gum sole, with everyone from the likes of Maison Margiela, Dior Homme and adidas producing their own versions of the silhouette. Once every 3 months should be just fine.Sometimes less is indeed more, or so goes the story with the discreet, unbranded cult Germany Army Trainer.

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