best air jordan

twelve

the six's will always be what i think of when i think of jordans

cosign his acceptance speech.

if jordan had come up in the internet age he'd have been buried so deep in scandals it might have ruined his career or made him shape up and be a decent person

i had the ones and fours as youth but threes are where its at for sure

theyre totally not showing the best colors in that slideshow

i mean these are totally the iconic ones

http://miabaga.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/air-jordan-retro-1-1994-black-red.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L1M6pEPWOq8/TchLWBVVkVI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/fp2uA7rgHYg/s1600/005_Benedict_LAH.jpg

as Tywin Lannister says, "'Take his shoes?!'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubLwkPcV3OI

3 mins GISing for a good photo of j's s enough to make sneaker culture nauseate me for a good 3 or 4 months

IVs and Vs are hard to beat

Coach told us to use New Balance when I ran CC since Nike had shite for heel support in the early 90s.

He wasn't wrong.

III

III in black then V in white. IVs were the only ones I ever had.

IVs are all-time imo

3>4>5>2 IMHO

jordans are p sick in that they made such an iconic design w/no logo on the side of the shoe, and theres still continuity through the diff models even tho theyre quite varied

check out these weird ass hightop 4s w/the swoosh

http://i.imgur.com/X2PBQ.jpg

there should be some websites where you can buy bootleg jordans for like $40 because i would do that

another 3 vote here

the XII's are when I remember thinking 'ugh really' and they stopped being cool.

I dunno. I kinda like the 2's. But the 3's are superdope.

http://i.imgur.com/fvoTW.jpg

lowtop twos are lowkey dope imho

def the most minimalist model

i don't remember the 2s being around when i was a kid.

voted for IIIs w/o hesitation, tho its hard to argue w/ the original design. I think most of the 90s designs were a huge step down.

http://www.nice2shoes.com/images/2009/07/10/Nike_Air_Jordan_III_whitebluered-200907101807152479.jpg

i remember being so impressed by the luxurious features of the vi.

finger holes on the tongue! a loop in the back! a lace-lock! this must be the easiest shoe in the world to put on!

I had the Is and IVs (I think? those are the "batman" ones right? they look a lil dif from how I remember them) Still remember going from store to store trying to get the Is since they were sold out most places. iirc the League banned them because they violated the uniform code.
The IIIs look pretty slick, weird I barely remember people wearing them back then.
Jordan was God to me, also, and like God he's an asshole.

the ones in kids sizes were called sky jordans lol

I tried to get my mom to buy me jordans in sixth grade (1990), but she bought me some other kind of nike instead. It was a running shoe with a pink tongue. I was so desperate for nikes that I wore them. They were so much more comfortable than the chucks I had been wearing but damn, ma... I think that my failure to get yet another goddamned trendy thing that all my cool friends had put me even further on the outs with them and led to me spending more time at the headbanger/outcast table during lunch.

It's a bit depressing to think back on how these shoes carried so much importance wrt acceptance with peers, at my school at least.

I remember when baby jordans were the height of 'lol rich ppl are crazy'

I had what I'm pretty sure were VI's in black with red trim. They were the first "expensive" sneakers my parents had ever let me buy, and the first day I wore them to school, I sprained my (extremely unathletic) ankle playing basketball. You can imagine how that went over. Subsequent attempts to buy "cool" sneakers also often backfired, e.g. the neon blue-green air huaraches I bought (a kid decided to ironically nickname me the "air huarache stud"), the nike running shoes ("you can barely even run!") and the reebok graphlites that were promoted by olympic disappointments dan and dave. I think some of my relative lack of materialism may have grown out of these experiences.

http://sneakerpedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pony-city-wings.jpg?w=500&h=340

pony "city wings" as rocked by spud webb. any resemblance to jordan 1s is purely on purpose.

It's a bit depressing to think back on how these shoes carried so much importance wrt acceptance with peers, at my school at least.

yeah I remember how much kids who bought the fake Jordans but put the authentic tag on them got clowned. it was merciless.

they were def a thing in my school but i dont remember it being a real life or death distinction, i may have just been oblivious tho

ha i had a pair of city wings because i wanted jordans but my mom wouldn't get me jordans

http://images.freshnessmag.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/06/air-jordan-iv-retro-military-blue-detailed-look-01.jpg

http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/air-jordan-5-retro-fire-reds.jpg

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smh

http://gizmodo.com/5965330/nike-jordan-xx8-first-look-james-bond-inspired-michael-jordans-latest-kicks

IV for me
one day i will buy and wear these, i don't care how stupid i look
http://images.sneakernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/air-jordan-iv-black-red.jpg

i can really relate to the stories of shoe shame here, people in my middle school were completely obsessed with basketball shoes. i eventually settled on buying once-cool shoes like 2-3 years after they were cool, which was at least cooler than off-brand. my biggest boner was buying nikes with a really, really big swoosh, like they looked like nike tennis classics but the swoosh extended past the normal point and were painted onto the side of the sole. i remember the first day i got them getting roundly mocked and thinking "fuck.....i have to wear these for 6 months now"

only pair cool of sneaks I ever owned were the nike air more uptempo

man i hate mj and i directly hold him responsible for making my childhood more unpleasant but i want those shoes SO BAD still. such is the power of branding, i guess.

i was thinking this morning how much time i spent thinking about/wanting a satin bomber and a baseball hat with one of these teams logos on them:

• LA Raiders
• LA Kings
• Chicago Bulls
• Chicago White Sox

u mean like a starter jacket?

like i have sketchbooks full of me drawing guys wearing that shit

i couldnt have seen more than like three rap videos in my entire life at that time but they must have been very influential on me

xp yeah a starter jacket

yah I have visions of the charlotte hornets one

haha i also coveted starter jackets, i finally got one with the chicago blackhawks logo. close enough i guess.

this might be another thread in itself but: would you buy your kid stuff like this, even if you thought it was ridiculous and horrible, if you thought it would make their childhood experience more pleasant? first impulse is to say yes but what if it sowed the seeds of making your kid an awful person later in life. makes u think

The new one is the worst one ever. Hideous.

yeah lmao

http://i.imgur.com/Ko4QM.jpg

the fuck

http://i.imgur.com/lKvfPbx.jpg

have seen at least 5+ people wearing these this past week, including a brother/sister duo

current faves

http://7.nicekicks.com/wp/files/2012/12/Air-Jordan-5-Grape.jpg

94 pippins