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Duct tape shoes fit to your feet

Duct tape shoes fit to your feet
With this awesomely simple Instructable, you will create a pair of comfortable, cheap, and crazy-cool duct tape flats. The main difference between these and other duct tape shoes (as awesome as they are) is that with these, the shoes are made around your feet, so they fit awesomely (and how cool is wrapping up your own feet in duct tape!?)

I put together my first and current pair in two hours, and was finished in time for physics lab. I used them in place of paid-for shoes, both inside and outside. They've held up very nice-like, with the help of some extra duct tape every few adventures.

Blabberings
Why waste a roll of duct tape?

My motivation was the ability to throw these things in my bag for barefoot/sock-only days. When I need to succumb to The Man (always getting us down) who requires shoes for service, I need only to equip these and could acquire food.

If you choose bright duct tape, you can increase the attention your feet receive by up to 100!% (That's no typo. That's one hundred factorial percent. That's right, over 10^157 percent!)

When wearing these shoes, many of the one-phrase conversations passerby-ers say at you will become the question: "Are you wearing duct tape shoes?" You need only to nod to increase your coolness.
 
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Step 1Ingredients

Ingredients
You can get away with
  • Pair of socks you don't care about (or one sock for every limb you want a shoe for)
  • Roll of duct tape
  • Scissors
  • Permanent marker that can be used on socks and duct tape

Maybe cool
  • Cardboard for soles
  • Maybe for-real shoe inserts for for-real arch-support and such
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8 comments
Dec 22, 2010. 4:07 PMGinnyPottersDaughter says:
tip: spread out your toesies while wrapping the duct tape so u hav wiggle room
Aug 27, 2010. 11:48 PMRonyon says:
jkahrs595: you win at funny!
May 16, 2010. 6:29 AMzascecs says:
I'm guessing that these are more of the indoor-type shoes...? 
May 16, 2010. 12:52 PMzascecs says:
No offense, but I wouldn't really wear these; they seem more for women... 
May 17, 2010. 9:09 AMjkahrs595 says:
 I would simply duct tape a knife or two on the end and BAM. Manly shoes.
May 16, 2010. 1:42 PMzascecs says:
Your welcome, I always just like to see all the new stuff on instructables to see if there are any good ideas. 

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