these are the new Air Jordans. When i was a kid i was a huge jordan fan and mowed many lawns to pay for some new Air Jordans. Now, i find myself both confused and noticably afraid of these shoes, the air jordan xx (retail price, $170).

I hear ya chase. I'm usually just confused with tennis/basketball shoes these days. If it has more than 2 colors on it I usually move on. I had these Jordans as a kid:



and the originals,

Look, they come with their own anklet!

oh i loved those. i will probably buy another pair someday, in black, and replace the laces with red ones. my gf had a pair of the jordan VII's:
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but wore them out waitressing. stupid girl. the new ones look like storm troopers wrapped in kinte cloth.

When I was in 4th-6th grade, the type of shoes you had gaged your popularity. So Jordan's and Reebok Pumps were the pinnacle of popularity. My mother never understood that, but for Christmas my 5th grade year I received black Nike Air Force 5's which propelled my status from dork to stud and landed me my first girlfriend (by girlfriend I mean I held hands with her).

jordans have always been ugly as sin and overpriced.
but i too had these

Those look like the shoes in back to the future 2.

the new jordans reflect the people that buy them.

just sayin'.

I've been seeing ads for the new "RBK" pumps. I guess "Reebok" just isn't cool with kids these days.

well, that's kind of a tautology, isn't it?

why yes.

Whoever designs Air shoes for Nike now is an imbecile. Ugly, huge-ass blocks on the feet.

A little brother of a friend of mine (he's around 16) has more Nike shoes than anyone I knows, and I can almost guarantee his parents bought him this new pair too.

In the mid nineties, Phil Knight bet the heads of Reebok and Converse (who were on the come up, what with LJohnson/Gramama) that he could market and sell uglier shoes than they could. Knight won. And is still winning.

For the record, this is what I was pimpin in 7th grade:

I've never owned a pair of Jordan's, period. I'd rather wear that little white box with the red "X" in it.

and what suburb would you have been pimpin' these in?

remember those "pump" shoes? those were the shit

ZING!

Actually, Ft. Riley, KS. I'm an Army brat.

And Ayah, pimpin is a state of mind, not a state of where you may or not be, baby. I gots to keep my pimp hand strong

In other words, its an expression. get over it.

Just lately I've considered buying a pair of brogues

I think these were the best edition of them all. Not too audacious, doesn't look like something crapped out of a spaceship.
Probably the pinnacle of the AJ series.

full disclosure: i had two pairs of these, those pictured and some seriously disturbing ones that were white/teal/purple, i guess the hornets were big that year or something. in any case, the bottoms of these were this hard clear plastic, which meant that they were both prone to yellowing but also way too slick to play on a gym floor that was the slightest bit dirty, and our gym was way dirty. i always hated them for that.

Man...who spends $170 on a pair of friggin' sneakers? If I pay more than $40 I'm pissed.

I'll go up to $60 if I really like the pair...

And, for the record, I always hated Jordan.

Besides, he's no NAZR MOHAMMED!

Its funny what you prize when you are younger. I spent $65 on my New Balances and I love 'em.

Course, I have a few pairs of beatle boots and a pair of Italian shoes that were closer to $200 than $100 -- but those are/were business expenses.

I never owned a pair of real true basketball shoes, even when I played basketball. Always went for the cross-trainers.

Not me... I have friends at Nike, so I can get shoes for half off.
Otherwise, hello, Nordstrom Rack!