Posted on August 12, 2010.
About Sneakers ShanZhai ShanZhai, which is an adjective and a verb, became popular recently. It has been used as a verb in most cases before it appears as an adjective. However, COPY is his father at that time. Personally, I can not help but admire those who research and develop ShanZhai Phones. I am not a teacher or an expert in high technology and science. It is indeed beyond my ability to let cellular copy. That's why I'm so late to pay my attention ShanZhai Phones. In fact, before ShanZhai cell phone, which is of interest to me most is ShanZhai sneakers. You can find many synonyms of ShanZhai, such as forgery, variants factory, custom sneakers, knock-off, rip-offs, etc.
Sneakers production was separated from the traditional field of footwear market since the opening of the last century and became gradually a specific industry. In the early days of development of sports shoes, sneakers these famous brand that still exist today were growing in scale as small countries, in Spring and Autumn. In comparison, most branded sport shoes large companies copied each other in design, in this phase. And you can easily say that their parts like today. Some examples are given:
Converse put "black leather All Star" on the market in 1948, which was designed to be different with other regular "All Star". This model was made of leather and full color toe part has been made to other blacks as the most classic white Converse. However, as a matter of fact, Brooks had already implemented a similar model of sneakers. Converse copied the design in the shoe parts, and the skills of sewing and airy 2-tech hole inside. What Converse was only changing the unique color from black to white. Brooks, the brand that specializes in running shoes in the U.S. market today, deserved the name "Black Leather" obviously better than Converse.
In 1941, there were 2 models of running shoes by brand Hood Athletic. "You surprised to see that one of them came with the concept of" shell "in the foot shoe, which was 28 years ahead of widely disseminated by Adidas SuperStar. At present we can not find evidence to show that the mark "hood athletic" still exist or not. Maybe it's better for Adidas.
Head came up with a design of tennis sneakers in 1964. Head still has its market in the world and focuses on sporting goods tennis today. Between the head of the Division of tennis in 1964 under Stan Smith Adidas brand, you can indicate differences in the language of footwear and logo on the heel of a shoe, but can not ignore their sole design and superior were nearly 99% the same. Is copied and is ShanZhai? In the view of time, Stan Smith is one of the most classic marketed by adidas in 1971. While Adidas Stan Smith has become so popular, finally, Puma and Nike has followed its design and product similar sneakers. Sure, they made some adjustments on the side holes of the shoe. Until now, you can always find Nike Tennis shoes preferred HiroshiFujiwara have denied any connection with Stan Smith.
New Court, Forest Hill and Roscoe Tanner models are among the most unique tennis shoes promoted by Pony, USA in 1981. And new Adidas Court and ATP were all alike.
Classic running shoes, Relaint LX (not Liu Xiang) was launched by Puma in 1987. This model is still being retroed Really it only proves Relaint LX can go through a trial period. However, this pair of shoes is not alone. In fact, you can find the original model as changing the Puma logo on the Nike logo on shoes next to the suit, launched in 1986 by Nike. In this case, Nike won. Anyway Puma have something original design and added hollow OUTSOLE to make it more comfortable. It's a shame it was found in the investigation further, Asics launched similar.