re: Did anyone here have a pair of Soap Shoes back in the day

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I lived in the Northwest and these definitely were really popular. Some of these responses in hear really take me back to Freshman year at LSU when a bunch of douches with dad bods that dressed like my 60 year old uncle would make fun of me for wearing Nike's lol you were a loser if you didn't have Soaps. Hilarious what a different world the South is.

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I went to school in the Dallas Fort Worth area, no idea what regions of the country these shoes were popular but in 7th grade every in my class had either soap shoes or wheelies. At a school dance one night we had a long PVC pipe we stole from a construction site, put a ton of wax on it and were grinding on it out in the courtyard. Fun times.

I think the main reason the fad ended was because us kids who had them grew out of them and didn't buy another pair. I think mine were a size 7 and I wear an 11 shoe these days.