“After a nuclear war, three things will exist. Twinkies, cockroaches and Air Max 95 Z’s”

“After a nuclear war, three things will exist. Twinkies, cockroaches, and Sick Of It All”

Two opinions, from two friends. Unfortunately neither of these are my size. Such a bummer.

Bear with me. The next week/weeks are going to be experimental as far as writing style goes. Coverage will remain the same (shoes I think are hot, weird, or a deal). Also some features coming up. If you dig anything, or don’t, speak up, etc

OG Air Max 1s. This pair is improperly listed, and a freaking deal. The soles are a bit yellowed, but they don’t look like they’re going to crack or anything. At any rate, white soles are suicide to begin with, might as well get a pre-yellowed pair and stunt like you were there.Not my size, but they showed up in my search… The OGs kill the retros in this case, and with all air max 1s. Kind of like an infrared or jordan 4.. the reissues are always a little fatter in the body and tongue, which I think is ugly. If these go for under 40, that’s a deal, in my opinion. You might want to stay around 25 though, since they are used, paying $50 for beat shit is not for everyone.

User massmovement773 (not sure who it is, but suspect I probably know the dawg) is selling a bunch of used runners (peep his whole list here). No real super hot shit or anything, but stuff like Steve Nash 90s, a couple stabbs, etc.

The one thing that catches my eye though is those FF 90s. Always thought these looked dope when they came out. Should have grabbed a pair, but slept on ‘em, and my buddy repped em hard that whole summer and I didn’t want to bite his style. Surprisingly subtle at the time and stands up well a year and a half after dropping, something you can’t say for 95% of every half baked concept for a quickstrike that comes along.

They are used, the pictures are blurry, they look a litttle creased (only real bummer), and the auction ends on CHRISTMAS EVE. There isn’t a high demand for these shoes, you can probably pick them up for retail or just little over if you hunt around, so a used pair on the cheap might be a nice. Just sayin’.

Here are a pair of OG Nike BWs, or classics. I’m not sure if they’re classics or BWs - I use a boolean search for both just to cover my bases, which is hard because it yields a lot of SBs. I am not sure if the box lists them as Air Max Classics or Air BW’s, but one is the other. The model was released in 1992, and purple/black, most famous colorway, is best remembered from a Boyz II Men photo shoot from that year.

This is one Nike that holds up well. For every wool dunk, multicolored Air Max 93 or Flight 89 with 360 Air there’s a subtler Nike that commands enduring appreciation*.

I picked up a pair of these in Brown, Black and Tan in 2002 at a duty free shop in Europe. I don’t know what happened to them, and if it was my preferred size I’d still be losing sleep over it. In the right colors, the shoe can make you look like you actually are from Europe. Stay away from the awful new retros and go with the original runner colors or anything metallic:

*There was a guy on campus way back who’d always rock the 2000 gold/silver Euro versions of these, with skintight stonewash 501s and a sleeveless Black Album era Metallica shirt. More than one co-ed was heard to have been crushing on him in the library. Despite the shoes he still looked like a drifter. Whatever.

Kind of a short update today. This is really one of the better Air Max 97s of the last few years. Besides the original colorway - not the one with the wrong, splayed air bubble - this is the best one since the shoe stopped being regularly produced. Monochrome kix - brogues, boots, flats, japanese slippers, crocs, white on whites, etc can be blocky. These are not blocky. Voltage Zoom Havens can be too sexy for some, but these are Air Max 97s. No one will think you’re wearing anything cool, unless you’re in Turin, the East Village, or similar environs. You want to see a dozen pairs of beat silvers in a row? Head there. Wanna see any old girl in a sundress buying an $11 coffee? Go there.

Nothing too bananas here but this is really a shoe worth looking at, what with all the fakes and boring co.jp’s chilling on ebay by the dozens. This shoe is a blue fire… any brighter flame would be a lie.

Take a gander: