Adidas have released a new style of sneakers and if you’ve been longing to perfect that “on the run for the law” look, that is a winner on the runways of Paris this winter – then these are the shoes for you.
Why? Because they have canary yellow plastic shackles attached to them. You heard right, the kind of shackles that naughty bread stealing types from the days of Dickens wore around their ankles. Hot.
The sneakers (which won’t be released until August – so steady those itching credit-card grabbing hands a little longer) were promoted on the Adidas website for the first time this week. The tagline was “Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?”
It gets you thinking what the fine folk over at the American Journal of Research in Personality would have to say about the wearers of the shackled sneakers.
They have recently released a study shows that with a whopping 90 per cent accuracy – strangers can guess your personal characteristics based on your shoes.
Here’s how it went down. Several hundred random residents of Kansas (as in, the place where Toto and Dorothy aren’t any more) gave up their most frequently worn pairs of shoes, all in the name of science. They also recorded their age, gender, income, political affiliation and a few other important personality traits and handed that info over to researchers.