00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Hewson-Bet and today we're going to be talking to you about second-hand clothing and particularly shoes.
00:07You may have seen some of the videos that we've already done on some of the vintage shops across Manchester but a little while ago I went down to JH Kicks to talk to owner Joseph about this brilliant business that he's set off and why sustainable clothing is the future.
00:20We also talked a little bit about the brilliant community that's fostered here in Manchester and in Affleck's Palace particularly. So without further ado, over to Joseph.
00:28So I'm Joseph Haggerty. So the name of the business is JH Kicks. So obviously my initials are Joseph Haggerty. Kicks is footwear and that's the bread and butter. So that's it man.
00:38So first of all, what it is, it's not just a general fashion store. It's a sustainable footwear store. So what we do is we acquire used footwear and same with the jackets but obviously predominantly footwear from all over the place or wherever we can.
00:50We fully restore shoes that we get. We get a lot of beach shoes, restore them, make them look brand new and we get them in our shop and we sell every pair of them.
00:57They're 65 pounds. So it's kind of creating an affordable, yet sustainable, sick footwear store.
01:03So yeah, I'm trying to merge them both together, the coolness and the sustainable factors.
01:07So I have been business for about two years, mostly online, all online. Actually not all online. I do a lot of markets and barbershops that I have shoes in.
01:15But I got athletics. I mean, absolutely. So yeah, it's going well. I'm born and raised in Manchester, went to school here, primary school here and parents are from here, still live here.
01:24So yeah, as you see there, made in Manchester, it's a big part of it. This is my home. I got my first person in athletics when I was like 16 from school.
01:33So when I've got a space in athletics, it's like full circle moment, man. So yeah, there's so many wide variety shops and some of them are weird and wacky.
01:41But they're so cool because it brings a variety of different people in. I'm sat here, yeah, even on a quiet day where I'm not making sales, the people like me is like mad.
01:49So it's sick. It's super important. And I know I can tell that athletes like try the best to try and keep that, you know, I'm going to be like 50 years now.
01:58And like that kind of e-post has just stayed consistent. Like, you know, when you walk up the stairs and you see all the, you know, the white wall where it says, I think it says no home, no home for me.
02:09You know, stuff like that, equality and stuff, stuff like that. And it just, you can tell that it's super important for athletes.
02:15Like we get a lot of tourists coming to athletes and they come in and they're like, it's so strange that we're coming from London and like people in shops, they don't just chat to you.
02:23They don't just smile at you and they don't, you know, even if we're not buying nothing. So from hearing other people, I just think it's just a community thing.
02:29It's a, it's also like, if you see at the front of my thing there, I've got stickers there from all local businesses in Manchester, that's just going to be full of them.
02:37So I feel like stuff like that and everyone, everyone does things like that in Manchester. It's just, it's not, it's not dog eat dog. It's everyone's just trying to do it together.
02:44And it's a good place for creatives too, because again, the vibe isn't, oh no, like they're doing that. I need to do better than them.
02:52It's we're all in it together, man. How can we do this? That's going to help her and help him.
02:56And so that's what I feel from everyone that's around me.
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