Machine made minimized sneakers are already a fashion but why not make your own? When your sneakers are getting old and ratty, just cut out the soft parts and turn them into a pair of sneaker sandals. Use fabric and glow paint to make them pretty too. I've tried it, works great.-- JesusHChrist, Mar 27 2005 machine made sneaker sandals http://sneakers.pair.com/sandals.htm [JesusHChrist, Mar 27 2005] Jesus making good use of his sandals http://newjanbrady....esus-do-atkins.html [FarmerJohn, Mar 29 2005] How do you make sneakers?-- finrod, Mar 27 2005 Ask MI5.-- froglet, Mar 27 2005 I would say marked for deletion as widely known to exist based upon the ten thousand examples of this in your link, Heloise.-- contracts, Mar 27 2005 [marked-for-deletion] baked.-- DesertFox, Mar 27 2005 [admin: "baked" is not grounds for deletion. Please don't mark things unless you've read and understood the help file. Thanks!]-- jutta, Feb 07 2008 random, halfbakery