IF YOU CAME of age in the 1990s, chances are you either owned a pair of Doc Martens or spent time begging your Mam to let you buy a pair. 

After all, they were the *coolest* shoes around

A pair of Doc Martens said that you were cool, alternative, rebellious. They also said that there was a 92% chance that you had decorated your schoolbag with the iconic Nirvana smiley face.

All the cool gals wore them

Daria, Alanis Morrissette, Winona Ryder… ALL THE GALS!

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Which meant that you *had* to have them

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You squirreled away your pocket money until you finally had enough to buy them

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And soon you had something to wear with your babydoll dress

Your parents didn’t always *quite* get them

But that just made them cooler.

But while you may have looked stylish, you had to go through the hell that was breaking them in

PURE. MISERY.

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You feel like a dinosaur when you hear about them being “back in fashion”

But there’s also something about them that makes you feel utterly nostalgic

For a time when you lived in army jackets and listened to Sonic Youth.

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