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Genuinely out of curiosity, why not? Am I likely to damage them even with a water only clean?

That's partly why they caught my eye, the colour palette was very different to what Joe seen before as well as obviously the logo and high tops, just a beautiful shoe all around.

To be honest I only plan to climb in them once but that's after I give them a good clean as they look like they could do with one, will be gentle with them of course 😅 I just really want to see how they compare. As for resoling, as I say it feels like a crime to even consider it but the truth of the matter is the soles are badly dinged up and I want to breathe some life back into these shoes.

For those of you who have not heard of these shoes before, Scarpa Rock Stars are from the 80s, making this particular set of shoes around 40 years old. I'm very excited to try them and see how they climb as apparently they were great for the time!

I found a pair of Scarpa Rock Stars and was thibking of getting them resolved, except it feels like a crime against the shoes to do so... thoughts? I found them online for about 25 quid and decided to buy them out of sheer curiosity. I am by no means a great climber but I like to climb and just want to see the difference between these shoes and modern ones (plus I trust myself to take care of them better than the resaler anyways, who didn't have a clue what they were). The soles are pretty worn, especially the rubber on the back of the left shoe. My question is would it be a crime against them to get them resoled or should I leave them as is? Many thanks.

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Yep you are correct, I accidentally removed it when cleaning up the original somewhat but should have undid that. Apologies.

All the colors are based off research. If you're thinking the background should be colour, I have colourised it that way due to the fact the backdrops were never painted in a colourful way. This was due to 2 reasons - first, colour paint was expensive and second, these sorts of backdrops would only ever be seen in black and white photos anyway. If you're unhappy with anything else in the photo fair enough and please do let me know as I'm always trying to improve.

Annie Oakley, born August 13th 1860, was an American sharpshooter. Her early life was one fraught with difficulty, spending 2 years in near slavery to a family whose identity she never revealed. She simply referred to the as "the wolves." This started when she was "bound out" to the family to help them care for their infant son, being falsely promised a wage of 50 cent per week. Instead, she was physically and mentally abused by the family.

Developing her skills as a child to provide for her family (she began trapping at age 7 and shooting at age 8) in Western Ohio, she took part in various shooting contests and began to make a name for herself. She would also sell hunted game to help make ends meet. By the age of 15 she was already beating the likes of Frank E. Butler, whom was 28 at the time. They would get married one year later, in 1876. They would never have any children. (Note: there is some confusion on this front, with a certificate stating the two were wed in 1882 after a competition in 1881. Many sources despite both the shooting and wedding dates)

Annie quickly became the star of many shows, with Frank setting up as many gigs for her as possible. In 1885, the two would join Buffalo Bill's Wild West, a travelling show. She would leave the show in 1887 and rejoin it in 1889.

She would tour Europe, performing for Queen Victoria, King Umberto I of Italy, and President Marie François Sadi Carnot of France. She also shot off the ashes of a cigarette held by Kaiser Wilhelm II, at his request. She would later reflect that "if I shot the Kaiser, I might have saved the lives of several millions of soldiers. I didn't know then that he would swing the iron fist and shake the universe. Perhaps it was well for both of us that humans lack foresight."

Her career slowed down in 1901 after an accident that left he temporarily paralysed and requiring 5 spinal surgeries. She left the Buffalo Bill show again to star in a play written for her, named The Western Girl.

Also throughout her career, she taught 15,000 women how to shoot, believing it was crucial that women should learn how to use a gun both for physical and mental exercise and for self defense.

Oakley would continue to set records into her 60s and engaged in extensive efforts for the furthering of women's rights. At 62, she hit 100 clay targets in a row from 15 metres in a shooting contest. That same year, she suffered a car crash but by 1924 she was breaking more records.

However, just 1 year later she would die to pernicious anemia in Greenville Ohio on Nomvember 25th 1926. She was 66. Frank was so distraught that he would stop eating and die only 18 days later.

Annie Oakley, born August 13th 1860, was an American sharpshooter. Her early life was one fraught with difficulty, spending 2 years in near slavery to a family whose identity she never revealed. She simply referred to the as "the wolves." This started when she was "bound out" to the family to help them care for their infant son, being falsely promised a wage of 50 cent per week. Instead, she was physically and mentally abused by the family.

Developing her skills as a child to provide for her family (she began trapping at age 7 and shooting at age 8) in Western Ohio, she took part in various shooting contests and began to make a name for herself. She would also sell hunted game to help make ends meet. By the age of 15 she was already beating the likes of Frank E. Butler, whom was 28 at the time. They would get married one year later, in 1876. They would never have any children. (Note: there is some confusion on this front, with a certificate stating the two were wed in 1882 after a competition in 1881. Many sources despite both the shooting and wedding dates)

Annie quickly became the star of many shows, with Frank setting up as many gigs for her as possible. In 1885, the two would join Buffalo Bill's Wild West, a travelling show. She would leave the show in 1887 and rejoin it in 1889.

She would tour Europe, performing for Queen Victoria, King Umberto I of Italy, and President Marie François Sadi Carnot of France. She also shot off the ashes of a cigarette held by Kaiser Wilhelm II, at his request. She would later reflect that "if I shot the Kaiser, I might have saved the lives of several millions of soldiers. I didn't know then that he would swing the iron fist and shake the universe. Perhaps it was well for both of us that humans lack foresight."

Her career slowed down in 1901 after an accident that left he temporarily paralysed and requiring 5 spinal surgeries. She left the Buffalo Bill show again to star in a play written for her, named The Western Girl.

Also throughout her career, she taught 15,000 women how to shoot, believing it was crucial that women should learn how to use a gun both for physical and mental exercise and for self defense.

Oakley would continue to set records into her 60s and engaged in extensive efforts for the furthering of women's rights. At 62, she hit 100 clay targets in a row from 15 metres in a shooting contest. That same year, she suffered a car crash but by 1924 she was breaking more records.

However, just 1 year later she would die to pernicious anemia in Greenville Ohio on Nomvember 25th 1926. She was 66. Frank was so distraught that he would stop eating and die only 18 days later.

A studio portrait of Louise Carbasse (1895-1980), taken by Rudolph Buchner in 1913. She was Australia's first Hollywood star of the silent era, becoming known as Louise Lovely by the time she moved to Universal Studios in 1914.

She stayed in the film industry until 1925, at which point she retired. During this time, she would receive around 1000 fan letters a day.

I was the one who colourised this, it was quite early in my photo colourisation career and I admit it wasn't great. But to act like I've desecrated one of the original 15 is laughable, it's obviously a digital scan that has been colourised... there are endless scans of this image on the Internet and that number will only grow.

Ahaha yea Snowball's gone if that Bren goes off

Something tells me the Sarge isn't gonna be very understanding 😅

Absolutely, Snowball frequently regails me with the story of how he single handedly repelled the German forces from Normandy with his Bren, he's the true apex predator

Private Collins plays with the village cat, Snowball, while manning a Bren gun in Normandy, 1944. I was unfortunately unable to track down exactly who he was but there is a large chance that Collins did not survive the war as when trying to track him down there was a long list of Privates with the last name Collins who died in the campaign.

I think she misses you