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Totally appreciate your perspective here. Gives me plenty to consider...Never realized that the '01's were so far off from replicating anything about the OG. I kind of thought they were the benchmark of AJI elements, outside of the shape. I feel you on materials....However, I think that I'm gonna end up going for a pair of 01's. Cause you're right....Truly a release of the golden era of retro's.The face-box, Jumpman "keychain" extra....I think the '01 means more to me. Now having so many of the Re-mastered versions...I kind of feel like the '16's aren't really a bred, but more of a Bred overlay. Haha!...if that makes sense. So much of the same color blocking in such a short time period....I feel like I need an older version to feel like I got the shoe I want.
Undoubtedly the red on ‘01s is the best. Cmf wise it was really close to the ‘94. I’ve always wanted the ‘01, you really can’t go wrong with those. I feel like that specific retro with some dark denim is a combo breaker.
Which swoosh was closest to the OG? I can’t stand the non-OG swoosh used on modern OG 1s. It’s annoying as hell they corrected it on the OG lows.
Ironically, when they eventually fix this on future OG 1s, it pretty much guarantees we will buy our pairs again (which is exactly what they want).
Man I’d say the recent OG lows and the union retros were the closest, but still not there. The thing about the OG swoosh, it started off thin and flowed into a big belly swoosh. I’m not sure how these dudes are not capturing that in their design process They’re just not looking at these minute details that capture that ‘85 look.