OK, here it comes:
DO'S AND DONT'S - LAVER INSIDE MODDING (ie. "How I became a man")
You'll need:
- Lavers, a ball-point pen, a sharp knife (I used a mat knife), possibly another pen
Foreword: I had to do this all secret, because my parents would surely have some comments and other thoughts towards this modding. Also, I couldn't tell my sisters or brother about it, cause they would have surely - with pleasure - gone and told mom and dad about it, and I really wasn't at the mood of these kinds of conversations.
Just be careful as you mod.
1. I took the laces off. I also ripped the inner insole a little bit off from the insole but now when I think about it, it may not be necessary.
2. With the ball-point pen I drew the lines of the area where I was about to take the canvas layer off. [Remember to pay attention in the "near toe section": stupid as I was I drew the lines of the left shoe poorly and later managed to cut the stitches that kept the fake leather padding in the toe (that that's in the white/navy lavers beige or something, not "in" the shoe, "out")].
3. I started cutting. It was actually really easy as far as I was careful, though I cut a couple of holes too - for ventilation of course *cough, cough*
. [Actually the small holes aren't such a big deal as long as you keep ripping the layer carefully.]
4. The layer is only glued there I guess, because I could just rip it with my hands. Easy.
--- at this point my older sister and younger brother make a lot of traffic near my room: I just throw the shoes under a chair - and hid the knife under all my clothes there on the chair. No-one sat on it. Don't know if it's a good or a bad thing though. ---
5. Cutting and ripping, ripping and cutting, more cutting...etc.
6. The point I realized that I had screwed up: like said this fake leather shiz is loose.
No problem, "Ei haittaa paskan vertaa", like a Finn would say. Nothing that superglue and self-stitching couldn't fix.
7. Next shoe: didn't make the same mistake again and planned more properly the lines I was about to cut. This one went better.
8. Finished. I stitched the too big ventilation holes and the fake leather back there. Laces back and "voilà!" mods are ready. The mesh layer feels incredibly thin and I thought the shoes felt even a bit lighter after the mods!
Too bad there was no-one I could have told about it - ironically I didn't tell about it to my folks but I can tell about it to a couple of thousand modified readers (yes, I'm overoptimistic about my blog's popularity).
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9. Shredding phase: better osisyses are now better. I like the touch.
End my report here.
ainakaan paljon ennen.
(LauriA, hiljaa...)
Mahdollisimman pian totta kai.
(it WAS wicked for me! 
), which isn't good for the game cause you have to keep pauses to let the air out.
)
