Adidas Adilette

The Süddeutsche affectionately called you "the chav without guilt". When Adi Dassler invented the Adilette in 1963, he did so for a reason. He owed athletes a favor because they wanted a shoe for the locker room that they could also wear in the shower. As a result, Dassler created the blue rubber bathing slipper with a pre-shaped footbed and lined strap. Suction cups on the sides for the necessary grip and of course the three white stripes. At the time, Dassler could not have imagined that the Adidas slipper would so quickly leave the sacred rooms of the Olympic athletes and conquer the saunas of ordinary people. That it would make it from there to the campsites and the streets of small German towns and finally the pavement in front of the "Seiler" drinking hall in the Kohlhaus in Fulda. The Adilette merged with us Germans and ruined our reputation. It made sure that even today our neighbours believe we are on permanent holiday and only move from the couch to reach for the chips. But now we are in 2011 and believe that she has mastered the style crisis.