It's just cargocult stuff, but for some reason I get liking nice clothes or whatever, but I fucking hate sneaker culture. I really do understand wanting to dress nice and being proud or glad of a piece of dress you own, I think most of us do. I'm sure we've all also spent an outsized part of our budget on some really nice piece of clothing once - I bought an expensive pair of winter booths some years ago, that I still adore.

But sneaker-culture just makes me mad, hypebeastism in general does it, which is how I tell myself I'm not just being reactionairy for hating it.

I guess it's because the cargo-aspect is just the brand and not the presentation that the cult identifies with. I do also feel justified disliking it, because every single sneaker head I know vehemently defended Yeesys well until (and for some past) Kanyes antisemitism. Also defended his dogshit designs as "brilliant".
If Kanye is at the top of your cargocult it's just shitty, sorry.

And I get wanting to take care of your clothes. I once got a tailor-sewed suit for free, and I love that suit, I do my best to take care of it. I still use it, it still gets worn down. Someone here once linked an essay about using nice stuff instead of saving it for later, I think that might have something to do with it.
I get wanting to keep your shoe clean, but frantically avoiding creases? Like they're afraid of getting creases! It's a shoe! Wear leather boots then.

It's got vibes without being about games.

I have one solitary exception and that is the MOKBA Adidas sneaker from the Olympics in the USSR. If I had the money I would consider buying those, or a good knock-off. They're a really cool piece of history to me and I love that sorta stuff. Got cookbooks from the 1800's and a set of wineglasses from an old palace from around the same time as well. It's neat!