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Is it me or has JB's quality of GRs significantly dropped off recently? It was never great to begin with but it seems worse than 2 years ago.

Tbf the price of almost everything has gone up significantly since 2013. That said, also to tbf, these should have been on par materials quality wise as 2013s, which they don't seem to be.

Tbf you could say that about most recent JB GRs Crazy because they charged $220 retail for these 4s as well.

2025 85 Royal lows

Royals have a thicker leather that breaks in very nicely and maintains its form. Have been wearing mine a ton over the past year and change, really excellent release and wish I had doubled up when resale prices bottomed out (since Nike/JB stupidly never released them here in the US).

Depends on the shoes tbh. 2016 DS AJ 1s are 100000% wearable. 2016 DS AJ 6s would be a bit dangerous to unDS rn.

I've also gone through phases where I will initially wear a pair a ton and then not touch it for years until I'm basically forced to sell or donate it lol

Curiously, which shoes?

85 Royal lows had great leather. Legitimately one of the best retros, quality wise in the past few years. Shame they seemingly dumped the 85 mold and are releasing Royals as OG Highs for whatever reason.

Market in general was completely different in 2013. Basically anything Ye/Kanye wore would resell lol

These seem like a blatant consolation prize for those Nigels lol

Do ya'll only consume drinks from cans/bottles? If a restaurant serves it in a glass but you don't see them pour it, does it not hit the same because you don't see the label?

Tbf Travis is definitely less relevant than he was pre-2022. He definitely has a massive dedicated fanbase but he definitely isn't where he was during peak Astroworld era.

Yeah Nike is also a relatively older company in the space to add to that. Not that being a growing younger company means you also make the best strategic decisions (see the past decade at UA lol) but there definitely is some give/take when adapting to new eras/markets.