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Customized Kicks

Individualized shoes from Vans, Converse and Puma are the latest trend

Mustworthiness Because who wants to wear the same sneakers as everyone else? If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?

Retro Active Puma's Mongolian Shoe BBQ (select stores through Dec. 31) lets you piece together slim '80s-style runners that scream ''Don't think I won't wear a tracksuit with these.'' Vans Customs (vans.com), hark back to the Moondoggie days, when surfers and skaters shaped old board shorts into superpersonal slip-ons. Converse One (converseone.com) acknowledges what teens have been doing for decades: mutating Chucks with Sharpies and nail polish.

Be Like Mike At NikeiD (nikeid.com), you can finally create those Air Bobs you've been dreaming of.

Warning When designing, please choose responsibly: No one likes Intentionally Ugly Sneaker Guy.

Originally posted Jun 17, 2005 Published in issue #826-827 Jun 24, 2005 Order article reprints

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