Adidas Dublin

Among diehard City Series fans, the Dublin is the holy grail, and owning a pair still says you know your stuff. Its story goes back to 1976, and the look has barely moved since: deep blue suede, red-orange hits on the tongue, stripes and heel, a gum sole, gold foil lettering and the T-shaped toe. It was one of the City Series shoes people actually wore rather than just talked about, alongside the Stockholm. Old pairs turn up made in West Germany, Yugoslavia or Romania, which is half the fun of collecting them. Adidas has since re-released it, so you no longer need luck and a market stall to get a pair, though purists will still check where theirs was made.