Alright, so, I decided that for my first blog I am going to write about Brand Loyalty. This seems to be the subject that I am most comfortable with because I am very very very loyal to brands... some people would call me a brand whore even. I buy things because they are branded I want to say mostly because well known brands make better quality things (which I truly do believe because my beautiful Volcom clothing lasts MUCH longer than my reject Walmart clothing), but I know at the same time I only say that because it makes me feel a little less shallow, that's like saying I'd only be friends with good looking people.. who am I.. Paris Hilton?. So, After all that self realization it's time to think of what brand is my all time favourite. What brand would I kill for? It seems a little extreme because honestly, I don't think that I love a brand that much, but what brand makes me feel genuinely good inside? What brand gives me butterflies in my stomach like after a first kiss and every time I see it? ADIDAS... old school ADIDAS though a.k.a ADIDAS Originals not athletic ADIDAS a.k.a ADIDAS Performance. When I see ADIDAS clothing, shoes, bags, sunglasses, snowboard boots oh blog ADIDAS anything, I get so excited. It's like an addiction, I see that label and I NEED to own it. I try to think back to what my first ADIDAS high was and I think I can vaguely remember it. I was probably in grade 8 when my mom first started buying me skate shoes.. it was all FILA and Walmart brands before that because they were much less expensive and she didn't want to buy me $140 skate shoes thinking I would grow out of them really fast, which I completely understand now. Maybe that's why I am so devoted to brands now, because I was deprived of them as a child.. anyways, random thought, lets carry on. So I was all about the skate scene cause I had my first brand new pair of Etnies and I was feeling on top of the world. I carried on with this style and trend for about 2 years before I started hanging out with different people in high school. She was a couple years older than me and introduced me to some new people, one being my now boyfriend.. lets call him Nick. So I met Nick thinking he was the coolest guy and what did he happen to be wearing the first time I met him? ADIDAS Classics. I remember LOVING the look of this shoe ... A couple weeks later me and my friend went shopping at the mall for some new shoes and she bought the same ADIDAS Classics. As much as I wanted them, I couldn't buy the same ones, that'd be lame ... so I substituted with some high top Phat Farms which I was very unhappy about. Long story short (although that was already pretty long) that was the first time I was genuinely upset because I wasn't wearing a brand that I desired. I waited a couple of years and eventually got the same shoes and I still have them. They are torn to shreds and dirty, but they are my all time favorite shoe.
I think that loyalty is shown when you go to NYC, the shopping capital of the world and are only excited about going to the ADIDAS store in SOHO and are so upset that majority of all the sweet shit is mens.
Brand loyalty is buying everything you see ADIDAS weather it be $20 or $300. So in conclusion, if you read this *cough, cough Nick, Lisa, Sarah etc...* buy me ADIDAS for my birthday because I am Stevie Visser, and I am an ADIDAS-Aholic.
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog!
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The word "Adidas" breaks down in Sanskrit beautifully: "adi" indicates that which is "the first, primal, beginning, original" and "das" translates as a "servant of, or slave" , thus we read the meaning of Adidas as "servant of the primal origin".
Now the Adidas logo at its most basic is three stripes, which can be seen to represent the three gunas. Moreover, the logo often appears as a trishula, or trident, whose three points can have various meanings and significance in the panoply of Hindu mythology, with many stories expounding upon it. Various trinities are often represented by the symbol —creation, maintenance and destruction; past, present and future; and (again) the three gunas...
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