A Tale of Two Flip-Flops: How Gucci Stole adidas' Adilette Design

Shouts to Future for reminding us that Gucci flip flops are the best footwear for having sex with another man's girl, but did you ever know the storied history

Shouts to Future for reminding us that Gucci flip flops are the best footwear for having sex with another man's girl, but did you ever know the storied history behind the luxurious slide? Thanks to the innovation of adidas, we now have it's luxurious Italian cousin.

One look at the Adilette flip flop and you can tell that Gucci shamelessly ripped off the German original—even down to the placement of the branding on the sole. Besides, with the adidas Adilette first dropping in 1972, Gucci had plenty of time to get "inspired" by the "three stripes" original when it came time to produce the "Pursuit '72" slide—which released for the first time last year.

 

 

While adidas' version is made in China and cost somewhere in the ballpark of $30, the Gucci version is handmade in Italy and costs more than five times that. Sure, both have roughly the same synthetic upper, but the ability to claim that even your pool shoes are "made in Italy" is basically priceless. 

Yes, Gucci basically ripped adidas' core idea with its slide design, but even Future's grandmother knows that Gucci flip-flops are superior. As Future recalled in his recent XXL interview:

“My grandma was over the house and she went swimming in the swimming pool and she needed some shoes. She needed some flip flops and she like, ‘What you got?’ and the Gucci flip flops was sitting by the door. And she put my Gucci flip flops on and ain’t bring them back… Like, ‘You don’t even understand, those the Gucci flip flops that inspired the song that you wearing. And you my grandma and you wearing them. Ugh.'”

Read more over at Style on the Dot.

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