Shoes Made Specifically For Sneaking Across Border

[LoKyBuckeye]

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Shoes Made Specifically For Sneaking Across Border

POSTED: 11:47 am EST November 18, 2005

SAN DIEGO -- The high-top sneakers cost $215 at a San Diego boutique, but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to the United States.

These are no ordinary shoes.

A compass and flashlight dangle from one shoelace. The pocket in the tongue is for money or pain relievers. A rough map of the border region is printed on a removable insole.

They are red, white and green, the colors of the Mexican flag. On the back ankle, a drawing of Mexico's patron saint of migrants.

Their designer is 38-year-old Judi Werthein, an Argentine artist who moved to New York in 1997 -- legally, she notes.

The shoes -- named Brinco, or Spanish for "Jump" -- were introduced at inSite, an art exhibition in San Diego and Tijuana whose sponsors include nonprofit foundations and private collectors

 

[AJHawkfan]

So basically it's a fanny pack for your feet?

 

[tedginn05]

Wait...These were "invented" in San Diego, meaning you get them in San Diego. I've heard of Mexicans jumping the boarder into the US, but I've never heard of people wanting to jump the boarder into Mexico.

Does this confuse anybody else too?

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to the United States.

 

[AKAK]

Wait...These were "invented" in San Diego, meaning you get them in San Diego. I've heard of Mexicans jumping the boarder into the US, but I've never heard of people wanting to jump the boarder into Mexico.

Does this confuse anybody else too?

And why are they jumping the guy they're renting the spare bedroom to?

 

[scarletandgrey]

TG05 you need another english comp class

 

[DaytonBuck]

I'd love to jump across the border into TJ

 

[High Lonesome]

Wonderfull

 

[BUCKYLE]

Wait...These were "invented" in San Diego, meaning you get them in San Diego.

The airplane was invented in Dayton, OH. Yet, they are everywhere. Hmmm, wonder how they did that? :2004:

 

[Deety]

Mwahahaha... you can run, but you can't hide...

 

[Golferdow01]

Just what we need...more illegals...

 

[ScarletBlood31]

215......... how are illegal mexican immigrants-to-be's going to afford that?

 

[Golferdow01]

215......... how are illegal mexican immigrants-to-be's going to afford that?

Let me spell it out for you...

but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to the United States

 

[BUCKYLE]

Let me spell it out for you...

BUT THEY WERE INVENTED IN SAN DIEGO!

How in the world are they gonna get ALL the way down to Mexico if they were invented in san diego?:tongue2:

 

[Golferdow01]

BUT THEY WERE INVENTED IN SAN DIEGO!

How in the world are they gonna get ALL the way down to Mexico if they were invented in san diego?:tongue2:

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