My Fun is Not Your Fun, sneaker edition
Jan. 10th, 2012 01:13 pmI completely blame
devilishdestiny for reminding me this morning that a lot of popular shoe brands allow you to customize your shoes now on their web sites. My morning has pretty much been wasted playing with make-your-own Chucks and Timberlands while silently thanking The Great To-Whom-It-May-Concern that Reebok didn't offer the same service for high top Freestyles, seeing as I'd actually probably buy those. Except Reebok TOTALLY DOES. Damn it.
So as a personal deterrent for customizing something I'd actually buy* I've been having an unholy amount of fun designing utterly hideous sneakers. I'm actually rather proud of these two:
Taste the Rainbow:

As @justdowd pointed out on Twitter, Punky Brewster might have been seen wearing these once upon a time. Hell, my 7th Grade to College Freshman self would totally love the shit out of these, not going to lie.
A tribute to yvettesbridalformal.com:

Well I mean, when's the last time you can think of that a web site (and a horrific one at that) inspired some seriously ugly footwear? I wonder if buying and wearing these would qualify me for some kind of performance art grant?
(The really scary thing? The shoe is astronomically less ugly than the web site that inspired it.)
Yeah, I have problems. Deal with it.
I do need to at some point, seeing as my current freestyles have no tread left... but will probably be sticking to my usual basic black, tempting as the purple accented options are.
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So as a personal deterrent for customizing something I'd actually buy* I've been having an unholy amount of fun designing utterly hideous sneakers. I'm actually rather proud of these two:
Taste the Rainbow:

As @justdowd pointed out on Twitter, Punky Brewster might have been seen wearing these once upon a time. Hell, my 7th Grade to College Freshman self would totally love the shit out of these, not going to lie.
A tribute to yvettesbridalformal.com:

Well I mean, when's the last time you can think of that a web site (and a horrific one at that) inspired some seriously ugly footwear? I wonder if buying and wearing these would qualify me for some kind of performance art grant?
(The really scary thing? The shoe is astronomically less ugly than the web site that inspired it.)
Yeah, I have problems. Deal with it.
I do need to at some point, seeing as my current freestyles have no tread left... but will probably be sticking to my usual basic black, tempting as the purple accented options are.