Adidas in general (Adidas in general)

Member Name: rossmoorlock

Product:	Adidas in general
Date:	06/06/01 (1437 review reads)
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Advantages: Good quality products, Good range of products, Stylish products

Disadvantages: Expensive, Pay for the name and not the actual product, Fashion is becoming too much of a big deal

To be perfectly honest with you all, I was desperate to write an opinion on dooyoo. I have written about 65 now I think but I have not written one for what seems like ages and my account has dried up a bit. I was thinking to myself, what do I know quite a lot about, and what could I write a decent opinion on. I would have to say that I am a very sporty person and play sport every day, so sports clothes and trainers are obviously very very important to me. Although I am not really a 'trendy' I do like to wear brand names, because I feel that the more you pay, in most cases the better quality item you get. I would say that my wardrobe consists of about 85% sports clothes, which yes is very sad, but to be honest with you, sports clothes are all I wear. Obviously because I play a lot of sports but also because they are always really comfortable and just easy to wear.


I am sure that you have all heard of Adidas. The German sports company, the brand with the three stripes. They are now one of the biggest sports brands in the world and are up there with Nike. They make so many different types of clothes and sports items that it is really hard to keep track of. I have quite a lot of Adidas clothing items because I play a lot of tennis and also always choose to buy Adidas trainers as well.
This is generally because the designs of them are very good, and suitable but also very stylish at the same time. This is the same with the clothes. They easily do the job that you need them to do but can also be worn as a fashion item at the same time.



Adidas clothes are very good quality and I have never had any kinds of problems with them what so ever. The materials that they are made out of are really thick and are very hard wearing. The number of ranges that they do are incredible, and every range is different. Adidas footwear is pretty much the same as the clothing. They are always up to a very high standard, and the designs are very prac
tical but at the same time very fashionable and can easily be warn with other items of clothing.


I think that a big reason for why Adidas is so popular is because of the sports people that they get in to promote it. David Beckham has always promoted the Adidas Predator football boots and this has made kids want to buy them just so they can say that they have the same football boots as David Beckham. It is the same with Anna Kournikova. Adidas advertise some of their clothes as being the same as Anna Kournikova's as this does increase sales a lot because every female person must want to look like her and wear the same clothes as her. All the big companies do this now a days, and I think this makes the difference between a big company and a small company. You don't see Hi-Tec pulling in Pele to advertise their products and you don't seem any famous people wearing their products either.


I think that the biggest problem with the Adidas products has to be the price of them. Although I still but a lot of their products I do definitely think that they are over priced and in some cases a rip off. I mean obviously you do pay for quality but only up to a certain extent. £40 for a t-shirt to me is a lot of money to have to spend. I think really that you are paying for the name as well. If the shirts didn't have anything written on them, then yes they would still be about £25 because they are good quality shirts, but it is the adidas sign and the three stripes that push the price up. The thing is with it, is that people are willing to pay these prices, and as long as people are buying the items Adidas are just going to put the prices up and up and up and who knows when they will stop.


Being only 18, I have to try and keep up with the latest gear and fashion. I do see a lot of bullying to do with what clothes somebody is wearing, especially when I was about 15. If you wore a pear of trousers with two lines running down th
e side, words like 'tramp' would be yelled out to you and this does cause a lot of problems. I am a tennis coach and I see a lot of this bullying going on in my squad sessions. People having the Mick taken out of them just because of what trainers they are wearing, as I think that really the whole fashion thing is being taken too far. I don’t mean to step away from the subject of adidas in general, but Adidas is just a number of brand names that is putting more and more pressure on children.

When I was younger my mum always used to buy my clothes. She got them from shops like BHS and Marks and Sparks, and up until I left Primary School I was perfectly ok with this. It was when I went to secondary school when I felt that I had to change. The 'in' people were the people with the Adidas trainers and the Adidas coats and so on. These were the people that were getting the girlfriends and that had all the cool friends, and because of this I felt that I had to wear clothes like they wore to have good friends. Obviously at the time I was very stupid and naive, but I did actually go out and buy some adidas trainers and some adidas clothes. The sad thing was that it did make me more popular and it did make me cooler, but to be perfectly honest with you, I think that this is wrong. You shouldn't be judged on what clothes you are wearing and in general on how much money you have, you should be judged on who you are and what kind of a person you are.

Ok, well I know I have probably babbled on about something completely irrelevant to the topic for the last 10 minutes, and I apologise if you read this opinion expecting to read something about your favourite pair of football boots.
All I would say is that all though Adidas make very good quality clothes and they are very stylish, don't forget about who you are and don't change your identity just to impress others.

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