What do you think when you see something like this? Nike Air Max Plus ‘Tiger’ retros coming in with clear toeguards (if I recall correctly the OGs had black toeguards) completely covered in inconsistent glue stains. Truth be told this wouldn’t really bother me (as a wearer of shoes), but the dude who bought these […]

#damndaniel I don’t know who ‘Daniel’ is, but I’ve seen his name scribbled on countless Nike production samples, including this pair of @Nike#newmara . I was under the impression ‘GTM’ meant ‘Good To Market’ or ‘Go To Market’ but I haven’t seen a pair of Newmaras since like 2013…can anyone confirm anything I just wrote? 😂 .

(3/3) And this is the last pic of the Royal 1s that I’ll post illustrating my point. This is one of the more inconsistent pairs I’ve come across. The right shoe with that #baggy leather and the left shoe with the #pebbled leather. It almost seems like they were made in different factories…or…at least two completely different rolls of […]

(2/3) The texture of the leather doesn’t look too inconsistent on this pair…it actually looks similar. The left shoe has more consistent horizontal line creasing while the right shoe has more horizontal/vertical creasing. I’d pay more for this pair than the last pair I showed. Next post shows a real bad pair.

(1/3) The Jordan 1 Royal retro from 2017 was an interesting shoe. I saw a few pairs and noticed something strange…It appeared that the leather on the toe box of one of the shoes was far more ‘plastic-y’ than the leather on the other shoe, which was more pebbled. I remember seeing a tweet from @matthalfhill (the […]

#tbt to when me and my firstborn wore our Jordan X Infrareds for the first time (this past summer on a trip to the #sacramentotrainmuseum ). I can’t say I’m like a huge fan of X’s (like AT ALL) but was happy to match shoes with my son for the day as I rarely (if ever) let him […]

With all this concord hype…first the armless Jumpman I posted a few days ago…but why does this Jumpman look like he’s wearing a backwards Kangol? For some reason I can’t tag the OP (@project1of1)

The first time #nike mashed this Air Max 97 with the Air Max Plus sole they called it the ‘one time only’ pack. And any time @nike calls something a ‘one time only’ shoe I’m tricked into buying it 🤦‍♂️ . I LOVE the AM Plus sole and think it’d go good on almost any runner and this 97 […]

I ❤️ Jordan XX9s. This pair of #mtm is especially dope. As I was grading this pair, I noticed a few ‘issues’ – (1) dust accumulation in the sole (2) midsole Sheen was fogging up (3) very minor (but present) glue stains and (4) minor leather creasing around the upper lace ‘cage’ (which is common with this […]

And the green pair of the Jumpman Z…the glue stains are a bit more consistent on the green pairs I saw. I should have checked the “Made In” factory tag. I’m interested in figuring out which @nike factories produce the cleanest and most consistent shoes.