The transformation (Image: @abbyj420/@.emia/TikTok)
Lockdown makes individuals do the strangest issues.
The most recent development on TikTok proves this.
Individuals on the platform are chopping up their outdated Ugg boots – which retail for round £160 – and turning them into slippers.
Maybe the weirdest a part of it’s that Ugg boots are generally worn as slippers anyway… so we don’t absolutely perceive the purpose of hacking into the dear shoe.
What’s extra, if individuals don’t just like the excessive boot design, Ugg provides a slipper model as nicely.
Tutorials present customers the best way to do it (Image: @abbyj420/TikTok)
Individuals say they’re upcycling their boots (Image: @carley.crosby/TikTok)
Nonetheless, some individuals say they’re upcycling their boots, somewhat than throwing them away.
The development seems to have began again in October 2020, when people began sharing tutorials on the best way to snip the seams on Uggs to take away the surplus cloth and to show the lined winter sneakers into slippers.
A person on the platform known as @abbyj420 defined in a tutorial that she determined to upcycle her 7-year-old Ugg boots as a result of they have been ‘every kind of jacked up,’ and she or he didn’t need to throw them away.
New slippers (Image: @.emia/TikTok)
With most of us staying at house greater than ever earlier than, slippers are more likely to be the footwear we’re sporting essentially the most for the time being.
However TikTokkers aren’t stopping there. They’ve additionally been chopping the winter boots into shorter ones that resemble the movie star favorite – the Ugg Traditional Extremely Mini model, which the model introduced out in August 2020 for £125.
Metro.co.uk have reached out to Ugg to touch upon the development and are awaiting a response, though we anticipate they’ll say one thing alongside the strains of: ‘please cease chopping up our boots’.
Talking of cosy footwear, you can be a slipper tester and earn £333 a month, which is slightly below £4,000 a 12 months.
And in different weird style information, clogs are back for 2021 whether we like it or not.
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