space-aged plimsoles

spacesneakers

these are the latest thing in space-sneakers, designed for high-flying cosmonauts of tomorrow but do you notice anything unusual about them?

that’s right even after 50 years of space going innovation and the humble shoelace is still the sine non qua of footwear fastenings.

here in the 21st century and astronauts are not wearing slinky space slippers or startrek kinky boots, they are wearing 70’s gym shoes.

I find this very pleasing

About caspar

Caspar is just one monkey among billions. Battering his keyboard without expectations even of peanuts, let alone of aping the Immortal Bard. By day he is an infantologist at Birkbeck Babylab, by night he runs BabyLaughter.net
This entry was posted in images. Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to space-aged plimsoles

  1. Wilhelmiina says:

    And I was thinking that the only unusual thing about these shoes was the totally unkinky camel toe design detail. I cannot help but think of a poor lady sporting a pair of camel toe figure kissing slacks and, um, a pair of equally camelly toed shoes.

    Enough to put me off, well, almost anything. For a while, annyway.

  2. D says:

    I wonder why they look so much like tabi.

    http://www.japanesekimono.com/tabi.htm

    I like them.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *