Shoutouts to 2003 – the era where Carson Kressley was a legitimate celebrity, ‘metrosexual’ was a word that people actually used in day to day conversation, and everywhere you looked the streets were awash with guys wearing salmon-pink shirts. As with most things in life, the metrosexual phase was about balance. When the world worked out that there was a difference between perpetuating masculine stereotypes and maintaining a beauty regime that’d make Patrick Bateman insecure things started to settle down again.

Still, credit to the innovators who broke down the door for one of the world’s biggest skaters to just go ahead and throw a pink swoosh on the comfiest skate shoes on the market right now. Yo, New Zealand may have beat us Australians to the punch on the gay marriage front, but I think we can kick off the lobby to get Tony Abbot rocking a pair of salmon accented Koston 2’s in parliament by 2015  – and that my friends, would be progress.