Rollerboots Postcard

Some time after the roller skate, and some time before the rollerblade, lay the 1980s rollerboot. Roller boots were essentially a marriage between cool Eighties trainers and rollerskates with wheels more like those found on skateboards. The result was something that everyone wanted, but not many people could actually do anything cool with. If you could, you were up there with the BMXers and skateboarders, or at least you could look good at a roller disco. For everyone else, a few days of falling over were the prelude to a journey to the back of a cupboard and then the loft, or maybe the subject of a call to Swap Shop to be exchanged for Buckaroo.