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  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
  • What Took Hold Classic Shoes - Jaded Lament
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What Took Hold Classic Shoes

Vintage Coral Illustrated Canvas Sneakers

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A twisting thicket of coral red coils across a black sea, rising like ghost-roots from the ocean floor. What Took Hold is the shadowed sibling to our cream coral design — less sunlit reef, more midnight trench. These hum with the quiet, pressing intensity of something ancient and unseen. The limbs of coral feel alive, reaching, gripping, thriving in the dark. Aesthetic meets anatomy in each tendril: are they branches, veins, or something older still?

The print carries the pulse of mystery — a bramble that took root when no one was watching. The left interior adds a touch of whispering chaos with its netted lattice of tangled forms, hinting at the organic collapse of reef into ruin. And yet, there's something undeniably elegant: a clean silhouette and crisp contrast that invites long looks. These are shoes that latch on.

Wonders Whispered About These Wares

Powers Bestowed Upon the Possessor

Abyssal Tenacity – The endurance to root deeply in unseen places, surviving where others fade.

Silent Claim – The ability to take hold of mysteries and make them your own, without fanfare or fear.

Tidebound Instinct – A sharpened sense for navigating unseen currents, whether of water, thought, or fate.

Jaded Lament Discovery Note

As always, the Lament cartographers have claimed this pattern was taken from an unnamed reef system in the Archipelago of Reclamation, where deepwater divers once went missing and surfaced changed. Official Lament documentation refers only to “The Structure Beneath.” Naturally, all future expeditions are forbidden.

Why the Laments Loved This Artifact

  • Coral like tendrils against a pitch-black backdrop
  • Tightly composed, subtly aggressive visual rhythm
  • A haunting counterpart to the cream coral colorway
  • Organic horror that never overreaches
  • Perfect for days when beauty feels like a trap

Adored By (and Designed For)

Those who prefer their beauty feral. Lovers of moody marine symbolism, Gothic natural history, deep-sea horror, and enigmatic organic forms. Fans of our cream coral design seeking its darker, more haunted counterpart.

Atmospheres Clinging to These Relics

  • Brooding oceanic depth
  • Sinister elegance
  • Gothic biology
  • Quiet obsession
  • Undersea myth turned corporeal

These Vibes Shall Be the Emanation

This is the version that reaches up from the dark, not down from the light. The black backdrop makes the coral feel not like illustration, but invasion. It pulses withtension, like something still growing. Where the cream coral was sun-bleached and strange, What Took Hold
is resolute and ruinous — a design that feels like it’s still alive.

Hymns to Strengthen Thy Enchanted Relic

Lend Thine Ear, Fortify Thy Powers. Invoke these chants whilst donning thy wares, that the enchantment might seep deeper into thy bones.

(1) "The Rip" – Portishead
A slow, hypnotic pull—like being drawn deeper by acurrent you can’t resist.
(2) "House of the Rising Sun" – Alt-J (cover)
A shadow-drenched retelling of a classic—moody, haunted, and strangely inevitable.
(3) "No Witnesses" – Keaton Henson
Fragile, trembling despair wrapped in beauty—perfect for silent, living ruins.
(4) "Black Water" – Of Monsters and Men
A song for drifting deeper, darker, and surrendering to the vastness.
(5) "Dead Sea" – The Lumineers
A solemn promise carried quietly beneath the waves—anchored, persistent, and unyielding.

The Tedious but Necessary Bits

  • Size Sorrows Be Gone

    The Laments Shall Stitch Another Pair If Yours Don’t Fit.

    • Fits true, like fate.
    • Removable insole—should you wish to walk a softer path.
    • Crafted from premium materials, blessed and battle-ready.
    • Canvas kissed by design, grounded by a rubber sole.
    • Colors hold fast like memory—vivid, precise, unforgettable.
    • Made-to-order, conjured just for you—no two pairs walk the same world.

  • Trade Routes, Tides & Transit

    A Note from the Laments Regarding Fulfillment: Each relic is conjured upon request, hand-wrought in our faraway atelier with care befitting the Old Ways. Most emerge within 5–10 days; arrival at your threshold may span 2–3 weeks, depending on tides, tempests, or logistics beyond mortal control.

    Some parcels may arrive separately—such is the nature of enchanted logistics.

    Should you harbor questions, omens, or mere curiosities, the Laments are always listening. Reach out at will.