Puma’s Sneaker Design Gets Nitpicked For Apparently Looking Like Adolf Hitler
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German sportswear brand Puma is raising some eyebrows after customers discovered similarities between its Storm Adrenaline sneaker and the facial features of Adolf Hitler.
According to RT, Russian social media users are criticizing that the footwear’s White/Black/Orange colorway has a black toe that looks like the Nazi Leader’s hair and a tongue mirroring his mustache.
One Twitter user suggested that the sneakers were a “disguised portrait” of Hitler, while another social media user said it was “8/10 on the Hitler scale,” as reported by LADbible.
The resemblance isn’t exactly obvious, as some customers expressed they have already worn the sneakers out a couple of times and haven’t noticed the likenesses. “I did not see it directly. I think it’s a bit far-fetched,” one critic commented.
The design has similarly drawn comparisons with US writer Edgar Allen Poe, Russian author Nikolai Gigol, and English comic Charlie Chaplin.
The colorway is no longer on Puma’s website, though you’ll still be able to purchase other variations at US$44.99.
Love the new Hitler Pumas pic.twitter.com/QSDg1FvrgM
— Terry Evans (@iamterryevans) March 6, 2020
Some people say the new @PUMA shoes look like Hitler from the top but we think they look more like Edgar Allan Poe. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/oo4v5NE8am
— Hot 106.1 (@Hot1061LTX) March 7, 2020
Puma have managed to design trainers that look like Hitler 😳 pic.twitter.com/PfaixoVqlv
— Colin (@atcolin) March 8, 2020
Thats a bit far fetched
— Noah Di Reda (@Direda_Noah) March 8, 2020
A scandal in Germany: Puma sneakers look too much like a certain Austrian-born dictator.
— Pekka Taipale (@ptaipale) March 7, 2020
But Russians have noticed a far more important likeness: these shoes look very much like Nikolai Gogol.https://t.co/y3IZVIQYUe pic.twitter.com/b0io7bX1ZT
[via RT, images via various sources]
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