Remember folks, if it spays and sticks, you don’t want it on your body.
To make their footwear, indigenous people tapped the gummy white sap of the rubber tree and dipped their bare feet into it before drying them by the fire. When the sap hardened, it formed a rubbery protective “sneaker” that made rough treks through the dense rainforest less damaging to their feet.
https://gardencollage.com/wander/gardens-parks/the-origin-of-the-rubber-sole/
Uses of rubber date all the way back to the 1600’s when the Mesoamericans used it for (…) a type of temporary rubber shoe that was made by dipping their feet into a latex mixture.
Do you know of any picture of this? All i can find is ads for sandals inspired by this phenomenon.
Closest I can find is an Amazonian rubber shoe from the late 19th century here:
http://www.wildrubber.com/wild-things/mackintosh-rubber-shoe
The darker Amazon shoe is further down. The more ornate one is Macintosh’s.
All at Kew gardens in London.
Sorry, I found no pictures.
We didn’t need more proof of enshitification of the internet but hete it is. A super cool bit of history and its main point online is to sell massproduced feetware.
The other day I learned about Peter Sunde his Kopimashin art project. I tried to find what became of it since because the plan was to make 13 and exhibit them in a musea and they theoretically would Bankrupt the music industry over a while. Yet the only information about it i can find is sensational articles from back then when it was just 1.
The other day I learned about Peter Sunde his Kopimashin art project.
Interesting! I instantly like this dude, after reading his Wikipedia article.
hugely wasteful and bad for the environment (in addition to all the potential health issues).
Peeling it off is like getting waxed
Oddly satisfying tho.
sock
Given the MSDS ( Home Depot’s copy ), I don’t think encasing skin in a good idea. Allergic reaction and cancer risks seem to be the largest concerns.
Could maybe wearing a sock help to protect against these risks? IE wear a thick sock and spray the socks (instead of feet) with the flex seal and you have less cancer/allergies?
Or just wear shoes and avoid it all together?
Never.
Right? This is some next level Balenciaga shit happening.
Not to mention trench foot and the wide variety of other diseases this would encourage. Shoes are breathable four a reason. This just feels like owning nothing and being happy about it, but shoes.
Maybe if they took the brand out of it, it would be a good idea. I went through a Vibram phase a decade or so ago. I really enjoyed it; being unable to wear them at work, and the added difficulty of putting them on and off eventually turned me off to them, but I felt the concept was great.
I still love the idea of Vibrams and the five fingers were so fun but I just never wear them…
The Fingers were the only Vibrams available at the time, I think; I may have had more success with something less fussy.
Vibrams also made/makes normal soles that are often found on shoes of other brands too. You may have worn some without even realizing. I did.
Yup, I swear by hiking boots with Vibram soles, and have for over a decade.
For me the worst part was wearing them on any hard flat surfaces always made my feet hurt, I have a high arch and it felt like the pain was due to not having enough support
Yes, concrete was certainly an issue. I figured I just didn’t wear them enough to get used to it. So many runners are able to do it.
Oh! That could have been it, but also runners aren’t exactly a healthy standard, those weirdos are cool with bloody nipples. /s
What tales of falling meatballs? I’m a bit lost.
This is a plot point in the movie “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”
In the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs the main character uses something similar
And this classic…
My feet are too hairy to do this.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
All my life I was very deprived
I ain’t had a woman in years
And my hands are too hairy to hide
They wouldn’t be if you did it a second time…
