The 15-year-old me would doubtlessly applaud the news, but the cynical 45-year-old me knows better. Despite the fact that I still loyally wear Doc Martens (when I’m not wearing sneakers), spotting a sign in a window on Broadway just north of Union Square (right next go Good Burger) bearing the legend “Dr. Martens – COMING SOON!” doesn’t thrill me like it once might’ve.
Y’see, I’ve been to the Doc Martens boutique in SoHo. If, like me, you naively associate the fabled footwear in question with rose-tinted depictions of Mods and Punks and Skinheads and Rudeboys and hardcore and bands like The Clash and The Stranglers and The Cockney Rejects and Agnostic Front et al., you should probably steer well clear, being that the SoHo Doc Martens shop is pointedly more “Sex & the City” than “Dead Cities,” if ya smell what I’m cookin’.
Regardless, the news of Doc Martens Union Square does provide ample excuse to dust this one off…
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