It’s funny what you find when you straighten up. These are
my skates…yeah that’s right I have skates. You’re not surprised are you? What
34 year old woman has pink and black skates she’s never worn, yup this girl. In
2010 I became slightly obsessed with roller derby, I think maybe that was the
year that movie came out about the girl from Juno being a roller derby girl.
Then I found out that DC actually had a roller derby league because I saw them
arm wrestling people during the H Street Festival. I started making people
accompany us to roller derby matches. I bought a fan shirt…yeah I know you
think you see where this is going.
So my friend Megan and I decided we should be roller derby
girls for Halloween. Now most people would have rented or borrowed skates but I
had a specific look I was going for. Pink and black. I got pink and black
everything; I even have a hot pink fingerless leather glove from Hot Topics to
complete the look. But the skates, the skates are key. If you’re going to put a
costume together it has got to look authentic and no roller derby girl is going
to be caught dead in someone else’s skates (Jedd shakes his head as I tell him
this). So I did what any girl would do, I poured over endless websites looking
for the perfect bad ass roller derby skates in pink and black to complete the
look.
They arrived in June of 2010…and by October I decided I
didn’t want to dress up for Halloween because dressing up was stupid. Yes
that’s right I never even took them out of the box. BTW if you’re in DC and
want a free pair of skates let me know. I tried listing them on Craigslist and
no one wanted them.
what size and are these still available?
ReplyDeleteUsually, longboards have decks that are 39 inches and above. you can try this out
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