Keen runners

Trainer fans queue up overnight for chance to snap-up €100 retro shoes

Patient customers wait for opening HARDY customers queued overnight in freezing temperatures to get their hands on a pair of €100 Adidas Dublin trainers.

The retro shoes – originally introduced in 1976 – relaunched yesterday and shops say punters were outside from 10pm on Thursday. Customers lining up to get into Size? on Wicklow Street, Dublin, said some had been outside all night and as of closing yesterday the store had only one pair left. Supervisor Erica Heeney added: “We’ve also had seven or eight calls an hour from people asking for a pair. “They are so popular as they haven’t been launched in a couple of years.

“We even had a couple of lads who got the boat across from Cardiff to try and get a pair.” Snaps taken by Size? in Dublin show dozens of people queuing on the street in freezing temperatures to bag the shoes.

She said the store limited customers to one pair each so trainer enthusiasts couldn’t grab the retro sneakers for friends or family.

They retail for €100 but are being sold online for upwards of €390.

The shoe was originally introduced in 1976 and was part of a series of city location names. According to the Size? website, the shoe has “three key elements” – smooth suede upper, dyed in a deep royal blue, the vibrant orange stripes which have slowly saturated through each new rendition, all sitting on top of the signature gum midsole unit.

Fanatics have been queueing for the shoes in cities around the UK too, with crowds forming in Hull, Glasgow, London and Leeds.

What a pair of the iconic trainers was going for on some sites yesterday