Clarks shoes

Ruu_Old

Quick teh key!! :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66JP2-A1V8

kelle

Was this shown on Irish TV? I absolutely don't remember it. I remember the one where the shoe was drawn on the child's foot with thick black marker.

Ruu_Old

Yep was on Irish telly alright.

spurious

Good old Clarks and their half sizes.

The one thing about Clarks is, if they say it's a 6, it's a 6 - none of your Schuh 'it's a small fit' nonsense.

Unpossible

That ad is a real blast from the past. Its strange how crappy it looks now though

cee_jay

OMG I remember that ad - and all I wanted was those shoes!!
And finally got them

billy the squid

There should be a sticky for old ads no?

how do you embed the youtube video

as for the shoes, remember having the ones that glowed in the dark when i was small.

Ruu_Old

Use the code [noparse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videocodehere

[/noparse]

Eg. Take the part in bold and put it in where 'videocodehere' is listed. Same with any youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30AVhf-ZLwM

Result below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30AVhf-ZLwM

Mrs. MacGyver

oh i so remember that ad it used to be out around the tiime the BBC chronicles of narnia were on telly. I had a pair of those princess shoes too - i think they are in the attic at home as i tend to hoard everything!

:|

Best shoes ever.

Madge

I remember that! When you bought the shoes didn't you get a key like the one in the ad??

GAA widow

"Magic Steps" - they were the Communion shoe du jour in the 90s

Malteaser!

aw those shoes were amazing!

yea you used to get the key with them!!

Miss Fluff

OMG memories. Had a blank patent pair, thought they were the biz. Always managed to scuff them though:(

Faith

I think I had a pink pair. The key had a function, right? You could turn something in the sole with them?

I lost the key and I couldn't change the sole anymore .

Charlie

Does anyone else remember a similar Clarks promotion during the early 90's that involved some sort of credit card type card. I think it was given to a child when they bought some sort of silver runner they were peddling at the time. It was simply a square card but all I remember was how I was obsessed with getting one.

Stargal

Oh God I used to love that ad so much! I wanted to BE that girl - I really thought that when I got my pair of shoes that magic things were going to happen and I was going to save the world from some kind of evil force. Words can't express the let-down when I found out that all the key did was change the picture at the base of the heel...

Nightwish

I had them for my communion in 1990. I loved them. I got Magic Steps stickers with them too, which were still stuck to my bedroom up until 3 years ago.

Stargal

Nightwish wrote:

I had them for my communion in 1990. I loved them. I got Magic Steps stickers with them too, which were still stuck to my bedroom up until 3 years ago.

Snap (right down to the year!). Don't think my stickers lasted quite that long though

What the makers of that ad didn't factor in was the years of abuse a certain feminine 7 year old ***** Clarke would recieve at the hands of his class mates in his all boys school. I think the nickname Princess lasted well into his teens. It was just too easy.