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New Balance 470 advert, The long, soft road, with a quilted mattress for a road through farmland and grey and navy trainers

Here’s a blog post hastily cobbled together on a Friday afternoon — it’s basically just loads of adverts scanned in from old magazines that were lying around on my desk. And they say real journalism is dead...

Magazine page of Bourne Sports mail order adverts for adidas, Reebok, le coq sportif and Timex running shoes, kit and watches

 Danner boot advert, We Save Soles, with bare feet over glowing coals above hiking boots in brown, pink and blue

Patagonia Synchilla advert with someone in a navy fleece leaning out from a suspension bridge above a wooded gorge

Black and white Carhartt advert of three people on an outdoor walkway in work jackets, sweatshirts and carpenter trousers

Mr. adidas advert with Jim McMahon in a headband, mirrored sunglasses and a white sweatshirt printed with a cartoon figure

Runners Need cartoon advert comparing Normal Service with a runner carrying a stack of shoe boxes, with a £5 off voucher

Mountain Equipment Real Warmwear advert, climbers in down suits on a snowy ridge above someone reading in a blue down jacket

Fjallraven advert, One Cup That Won't Runneth Over, with drawings of the Thermo Camp 78 Cupola Tent and its stuff sack

Vango Force Ten advert, Lawrence of Arabia would have given 2 camels, with someone in robes by a ridge tent on sand

Vibram soles advert, Second best is not good enough, with a photo of K2 and an inset portrait of Jim Whittaker

Military Warehouse mail order advert, nine photos of a model in US flight jackets, caps and aviator sunglasses by aircraft

Levi's Shades Fade advert, Not everything left out in the sun goes brown, pastel jeans and jackets strewn across a desert

Reebok advert, Official shoe of the Varsity Cello Team, with cellists in black on a curtained stage, all wearing trainers

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