MiAdidas

I've been searching high and low for a nice pair of running shoes for a quite a while now.

My current pair is v. comfortable for casual wear, but makes my feet hurt like hell when i jog (YES! i've been trying!) or even brisk walk.

I suspect the padding's a tad too narrow and its contours don't fit that well with my feet.

So after countless quick glances in sporting outlets, I still couldn't find a satisfactory design. Well., at least one with a decent price. Running shoes cost freaking bombs. Pair of good ones can easily hit 500.

And they're fugly.

Got fed up after a while so my solution? Customize my own shoes!!

Behold, people! My MiAdidas. I call it the WS. :D

I first read about MiAdidas at Kennysia's a while back and back then to customize your own shoe cost an additional 50%. RM500 + 50% = RM750 A 50% larger bomb! The horror.

After some random bumming around online, i discovered that HSBC card holders, and DiGi users (wtf la. what about maxis users, huh!?) got a 50% discount on their MiAdidas customized shoes!

Awesome!

So off i went to Adidas Pavillion. I went twice, with dad. Previously i called to ask about the 50% discount and they said i could pop by whenever. When i arrived 2 weeks later they had such a sudden surge of shoe-customizing-customers that the appointment schedule was packed and we had to come back another day. -_-"

This is pretty much how it works.

Except the computerized measurements. That was bullshit. I suspect they were too busy to computer-measure my feet and what not. They merely asked me try on shoes. I wanted to give them hell for that but my dear father was in a great hurry, AND the pair i tried on was god damn comfy. So.. sigh.. no choice lor.

You get to choose colours for each part of the shoe design, from the soles to the laces to the fabric and so on. Material (summer mesh or winter mesh) can also be chosen. Limited colours though, but good enough to come up with unique designs.

There are also options for the shoe pads, for performance, or stability or endurance or some crap like that. Based on the computer-measurements (which i didn't take), customized feet padding can be made based on the pressure on your feet. Sock-liner can be changed for performance, or for extra cushion to avoid chaffed achilles' heels.

You start off with a sterile sort of while colour. And the rest all depends on your creativity.

I've designed some, just for fun! I have access to the database, afterall. :D

Pink and White. For the ladies. Not bad, right?

Similar one in Green and White.

Colour-on-white-base looks quite spectacular, but white gets dirty quickly and some turn a shade of grotesque yellow over time... Which is why i steer clear of white shoes. Have got horrible experience.

Loud, candy sorta colour combination. Oh yeah.

Zebra shoes. For people who love monochrome.

Common blue-white-black.

Truth be told. The initial design that i had wanted was this.

All black's too boring so i wanted a dash of reddish purple but the colour was too "gay" (excellent accidental pun here!) for my dad. Which is absolutely ridiculous coz he didn't bitch about chili red, which is just a few colour tones away. Old people..

And then. You can do something absolutely hideous like this

"Woahh look at that shoe! So damn ugly until i can't take my eyes of it."

If that's what you want, i guess. Doubt anyone would have such a bad taste to actually do this, but i've seen such garish shoes on sale...

To customize one can choose to embroider any message on the shoe, as well as to include a flag. In the US you can even choose to customize your school logo onto the shoe. Imagine those school basketball teams. In addition to matching jerseys with their names on, they have matching shoes, with their names and school logo. Damn cool wei wtf!


I chose to embroider Polar on my shoe. Nyahaha. Can write whatever message you want on your shoe!

Beep beep. Roadrunner. Quite be-fitting a running shoe.

Sadly... Not whatever you want though. X(

Total damage came up to..? RM264.95 after discount.

The current status now says "manufacturing". There's a waiting time of 3-4 weeks. I ordered it on the 3rd so with luck i should be able to get my feet into them by New Year!