We really need this shoes back in vogue.

Yaay, yes cortina from bata or lennards. Those soles, whatever were they made of? Dem no de spoil o.lol. Kito and trekkers came out much l8r.

It is called 'BACK-TO-SCHOOL'

Wow! Those were the days!
Came back from first day school without mine (@ Army Children School, Myayoung barracks, Yaba, Lagos).
My not-so-pleased, but loving parents, had to cough up another pair the next day. One of the advantages of being a first born child.

naijaz_own: BATA or LENARDS...


I remember having a pair imposed on me by ma old-guy...As I try spoil am reach, shoe no gree spoil.
E rugged diee...

d shoe is
mostly imposed and e no de spoil.u can only outgrow it

Ha! Good old trusties! Never say die, first choice school footwear in its heydey. They don't make them like they used to

cortina wz d official sandal @ fgcikirun osun state den wore mine 4almst 2yrs...menh dt wz dn

na yaba me i dey go buy my own Bata, wey dey dey inside box,e go con give you this kind smell...nostalgic memories

How can i forget "Barra cortina"

"Barra my choice, sunny whimsical"
How can I forget a pair of shoes that I had to wear over-sized so my feet had to grow into them

How can I forget the pair of shoes that gave me bruises in my heels and.....made me walk a whole week like a kiwi

I wore it in secondary days..twas compulsory for everybody then in my school..long live TCC.

i love Leanard cortina more than BATA cortina. i wore it till SS2.

naijaz_own: BATA or LENARDS...


I remember having a pair imposed on me by ma old-guy...As I try spoil am reach, shoe no gree spoil.
E rugged diee...

Chai. ADRAO memories. ..I had a pair of both names. BATA wasn't soo good as Lenards..

WOW...i miss my Cortinas n Bata...mine really lasted back in the days since popsy no gree buy me new ones even after coming 2nd in class...

LesbianBoy: Like this comment if you wore 'kito' sandals back in the days!

hmmmmm....like if you wore 'aerosoft' too...

I remember it then, when mum bought it from Bata in kaduna state for me and my sister as xmas shoe... Memories of old school... Lol.

Yes i remember it. Bata shoe. Built to last

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Hahahahaha.....oh yeah! I can rmber wearing those shoes, it used to be my favourite...cause it makes one look smart.

omohba: I wore it in secondary days..twas compulsory for everybody then in my school..long live TCC.

lool same here, it was compulsory for all.

lol

aadetoyin: Yeeeeeeees. I love them. So comfortable. I can remember am always eager to get a new pair of Bata shoes back then around Ojota. Whenever I pass that area I just keep wondering what happened to Bata and Lenards
Sweet memories.
Can u remember those long socks we used to wear?

Its now known as famad,and dey r still at ojota

Going back the memory lane I remember singing "Cortina tina BATA tina tina BATA eh eh BATA 2x" maybe dancing Azonto to it then cause I can't really remember what I use to dance to it but if it were these days I hope Azonto or Alingo...LOL

My Cortina shoes would neva come to me in its next world. My Dad bought me my first pair in Primary four when i took 3rd and I wore up till JS2. By that time, the sole was so flat (from too much screeching) like a wafer and all the shoe makers had an autograph on the shoe . I even remembered giving the shoe a pet name (though adon forget the name sef). I kept the corpse of the shoe in the wardrobe to shpw my kids... before militants stole it

i put that shoe tire from form 1-3 in the early 80s

yes o, I had mine way back then. It was rugged and very comfortable to wear.

you have just remembered me my old school days army command children school zaria.
the shoe never dies,my father will bring evostic gum from his work place and start to repair always the front will pull open.it is a good shoe.
i try buying one for my son but the quality is not the same again.

I wear this shoe sha
I was a loyal customer @ BATA
Whatever happened to them?

LOL! Memories.

And would you believe it, out of interest I ran a Google search for Bata shoes and the company still exists in a good number of countries though for whatever reason they are not in US or UK (They are in Canada and Australia). Anyway so I went one further and guess what? While slightly different, these our beloved shoes still exist, now known - very aptly - as Toughees!

@ Mandy4$ here's a link for you: http://www.bata.com/brands-Bata-Toughees.php#1

Here's another pic from the Australia site of a Bata toughees shoe called Zoe

I actually remember Bata shoes and Lennards, Kito came much later. Darn! Like joke, like play, person don old oh!

Haa the days when Jenny thought herself to be one hawt chick in those