Gets harder and harder to find OG pairs by the day. Wearable or not. Not only does each passing day age the shoe that much more, but with Customs & sole swaps becoming more prevalent people are more likely to hold onto them & restore or 'Frankenstein' them themselves, IMO.
If you have a special relationship to a model, say maybe the first J you owned as a child? There's extra incentive to have again, what you once had and lost.
If you're a serious collector, it's the difference in 1st or 2nd printing if this was comics rather than kicks, relating to assigned monetary value.
It's all relative in the end. Rich man, poor man, we all end up bones.
I saw it mentioned in, I believe, the 'Remastering' thread, that some people who owned OG's ? Ran thru the kicks in their youth, and haven't actually seen or touched an OG in so long that they really can't accurately recall the shape or other details, when it comes to assessing accuracy on newer Retros of the same model. I feel that way to a degree. Sometimes I wonder if my recollection of how ill the OG Black/Inf' VI was is overly shaded by the fact I was a CHILD, and that they were my first J 's, or because I was overly infatuated with Jordan at the time. Blah.
I do know one thing, and that's that I don't know much. I can wholeheartedly say, however, that OG's are thicker, stronger, better products than the paper thin hype slippers we get now. But, no one forces us to buy. Blah.
