The year is 2006, the majority of my friends and I turned 18. At the time we thought we were in the big leagues. We could now hit the club and get it poppin like the “grown folks” we thought we were. Me being the type of person I am I did some critical thinking about this new chapter in my life. I understood I was going to be in the mix with an older crowd and I needed to dress accordingly, enter boat shoes. Although this footwear silhouette has been around for decades, boat/deck shoes came into my life the summer of 2006. Sperry and Sebago are to of the better known brands in the boat shoe “world” but just about every brand has their variation of the shoe. I personally love boat shoes, there comfortable, versatile, and functional go on a boat with these on to see what I mean. I snapped some flicks of my humble collection the other night since I was doing some shoe cleaning anyway. I hope to add some more designer pairs in the near future I would kill for the black leather and nylon Gucci’s. PLEASE OH PLEASE! consider purchasing some boat shoes for your next trip to the club you can find them at your local department store for a great price. They look great with jeans and a polo for those of you who don’t like to do much to get dressed for the club. Do not be the guy that rocks his dads church shoes : DAD’S CHURCH SHOES

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I’m not a huge beer guy, and for my fellow non beer guys this is a on point alternative. It doesn’t end with this brand, go around to some of your more distinguished bars and try to find the really hard stuff some English brands have a content of up to 8.5% alcohol by volume.

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35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be. Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, to make sure he gets it just right, so he achieves the right effect.   Click here for more!

As you can see, here at Certified-Official we take every garment that we own very seriously. From our hats to our socks. One piece that we are very prideful of is our denim!

I’ve had my Nudie’s for about 2 years now but I’ve only wore them for 8 months straight, no wash (and I mean 8 months, everyday, I’m freakin’ preggo STRAIGHT). But during this past winter, the most unfortunate thing happened… THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here at Certified-Official we like to keep our ears to the streets. When I say streets I mean OUR streets. There are plenty of blogs posting the latest kanye, wanye, jada, and whatever heavy weights mixtapes you can think of. We personally like to highlight what is directly around us.

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Meet Dave East, if you are from around my way you know this guy from crushing your high school team in the play offs but you might not know about his skills on the mic. I took time to have a conversation and find out what is really going on with this dude and where this music came from. Video after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »