Published by Swiss James on 29 Sep 2009 at 01:06 pm
Shoe Tuesday- the next level of Chinese shoes
Every hipster in Shanghai has a pair of either Warriors or FeiYue. They’re awesome and comfortable, but pretty soon Russell Crowe is going to be spotted wearing a pair and the jig will be up.
When that dark day happens here are three alternatives:
Shoes that say “I L <crown> VE Shanghai”
Pros: Excellent ankle protection against shopping trolleys and sniper fire.
Cons: Ugly as sin, make you look like a golf club.
Ying Yang Shoes
Pros: Buddhists believe
“Maitri or Metta in Pali (Loving Kindness) and Karuna (Compassion) to all living beings including animals”
and since these shoes aren’t leather- you’ll have Pali coming out of your ying-yang
Cons: Shoes appear to have been a pile of wet laundry in a previous life.
Electrician safety shoes
Pros: Protection from faulty cables up to a maximum of 250Kw, assuming dry conditions.
Cons: You don’t think they actually work do you?
Heck, the elf from The Lord of the Rings was already wearing FeiYues last year.
Those are all well and good (I think the I Love Shanghai ones are Dada’s – an American company) but to get on the hipper than thou bandwagon, you gots to get yourself some ThreeBall shoes – made in Guangzhou.
Just as soon as I make my next trip down there, I’ll come back with a pair or two. Like Fei Yue, but 9 kuai (9 KUAI!) a pair.
shoe 1. grossness accentuated by the pube-escent hairs of their master’s legs.
shoe 2. i wish i had to stomp around with in primary school.
shoe 3. kanye could make them cool -0/ but they are a tell-tale sign of a ‘hard-disk’ person???
err.. the one side of kanye’s sunglasses disappeared -
T- I’m a US size 10, and I’ll even give you 10RMB for them so you can make a fat profit
yin- Kanye is a clown, if he endorsed a brand of fire extinguisher, and that was the only one I could use to put a fire out- I’d let it burn.
Granted 9 RMB was the price in 1997. It’s probably all hipped out now and paired with skinny jeans and scoop neck t-shirts and up to 15RMB.
Those threeball shoes sound interesting, can only see football boots on the interweb though, the logo looks familiar!
you should have put up a warning first
i was just having my dinner !! :(
Nice one. Those Ying Yang shoes really do look like they’re just barely keeping it together.