ssgefiestoakagerger
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Does anyone know if ziploc and silica gel packets will have the same effect?
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Originally Posted by caynelyfe
Saw this on sneakernews, its an og VIII Sample. Painful, shrink wrap is NO GOOD. This Is Why We MUST Wear Our Shoes, As They Are Shoes, Not Statues.
Originally Posted by ssgefiestoakagerger
Does anyone know if ziploc and silica gel packets will have the same effect?
Originally Posted by Daver
Originally Posted by ssgefiestoakagerger
Does anyone know if ziploc and silica gel packets will have the same effect?
from personal experience and my own opinion, YES. not exactly, but yea it does. shoes need to breathe and with it being in a ziploc would have no air passage. the thing about silica packs is that they absorb moisture so i would only suggest putting one in each shoe box. the reason why i say one is that by putting more than one per shoe box would dry out the shoe especially in humid areas. if shoes dry out, it would cause the glue to dry up and then separate glued parts of the shoe (i.e the sole). this is just my opinion and the method i use..feel free to contradict my method..
just remember..shoes that old are kind of expected to have at least SOME crumbling/cracking/separation/etc..so regardless, no matter how much you try to preserve the shoe it will age. that cannot be prevented.
Originally Posted by blackiceblaze
ok.... what if? who cares
Exactly, not to mention get every pennies worth out of them. They'd be beat into the ground before they got tossed in favor of whatever Air Jordans were new by that point. It's hard to believe it's gone from that, to people just stock piling boxes of shoes that they never even see, let alone wear. I can understand to a certain extent, as now that they're childhood memories and classics, it's hard to watch them get beat up because you want to hang on to how they made you feel when seeing them all brand new, but the reality is, whether you wear them, or not, they will never remain that way. They will always be a memory.Originally Posted by Cadwallader
When I was a kid, buying a 150 pair of sneakers to put away and never wear was completely unheard of. In the '90s, if you spent that much money on a sneaker, you wanted every one to know it.
Precisely. I don't care what you do to "preserve" them, it is the nature of allmaterials to eventually degrade. You can do things to prolong theirlife, or minimize the damage, but it is an inevitability. That's why Iwonder what exactly it is that people who buy shoes to "collect" thinkthey're going to do with them. Do they think they're still going to bearound and intact in 25 or 30 years?Originally Posted by Daver
justremember..shoes that old are kind of expected to have at least SOMEcrumbling/cracking/separation/etc..so regardless, no matter how muchyou try to preserve the shoe it will age. that cannot be prevented.