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There’s so much that goes into planning a lineup for production and sales, especially 3 years out. There’s countless examples of them holding out on certain colorways way too long. But that in no way correlates to popularity when creating a product mix.I mean relative to one another, not in general. Obviously 9’s don’t have the popularity of something like a 3 or an 11. But I mean these two particular 9’s. In 94’, hella people had the Charcoals, it was the second most popular 9 right after the white/blacks. A few people had the Powders. I don’t recall seeing even ONE person with Olives in the wild back then. At my school or otherwise.
It’s just strange to me we are going on the 4th retro of Olives and have only seen one (mediocre) retro of the Charcoals, considering a black/red Jordan will always be more popular than a one off like the Olives.
If anything, hitting the olives and doing these better than the last ones speaks to how much the Gentry era botched IX retros. We’ve discussed in the Olive thread the botched 2012 release where very few people got pairs and a lot ended up coming from B grades that appeared at outlets. Then the fake out on Olives with that hornets BS.
Charcoals are overdue, but I don’t think it’s because the company doesn’t think they could sell them. And honestly these powders have moved pretty well. Sizes are dried up on a lot of places. Probably a restock coming but these didn’t sell poorly.