A Look At The Jordan AFJ8′s
Release date: March 06, 2010. Price is $140.00. Anybody buying these? I’m a jordan fan so count me in.
FASHION
Prevent Your Icy Sole from Yellowing
Our recent purchase of the Air Jordan 11 Space Jams brings up a great opportunity to discuss a vital issue. At one point of your life as a sneakerhead, you have been faced with this dilemma. How do you keep you icy soles from yellowing? Before looking at some potential solutions, let’s first understand the process of how our icy soles get yellow.
Whether you kept them in your closet or wore them vigorously, keeping your soles icy is quite inevitable. Why? Because the yellowing happens due to a process called oxidation. Oxidation is the combination of a substance with oxygen. Sadly, when your icy soles are exposed to oxygen, they turn yellow! How in the world can you prevent them from turning
If you wear your shoes, yellowing of the soles can’t be avoided. So, you are going to have to accept that you are NOT going to be wearing these shoes. Now some of you guys are probably thinking: “I just paid $175 for these Space Jams, I am wearing them!”. As a collector, I personally like to buy multiple pairs of my holy grails. In this case, I wear one pair and keep the other pair on ice. But not all of us can afford more than one pair so lets discuss best ways of keep you soles icy as long as possible.
Stay off grass, dirt, gravel and things of the sort. If you are walking with your friends and they take a shortcut via the grass, do yourself a favor and walk around. It’s NOT worth it. Do not wear in the rain! Water is your worst enemy. Water will give you the nice yellow bottom for sure… No rain or snow puddles because moisture and oxygen = yellow soles.
“As the inventor of Sea Glow, I thought you all might be interested in how it works, how it should be used, and the precautions you should take. Visit islandgirlproducts.com to order Sea Glow. Yellowing on the surface of white or clear synthetic rubber is due to surface oxidation and staining, and will be removed by Sea Glow or Island Girl Pink. However, yellowing that goes down deep into the sole is mainly due to the natural slightly yellow color of the rubber that, when new, is corrected by a flourescent “optical brightener”, which eventually stops working and HAS to be activated by the small amount in UV in regular daylight. By soaking down into the rubber, the highly flourescent additives in Sea Glow will neutralize the yellowness, but only in the presence of sunlight. Once this has happened, the rubber will stay this way as long as it sees daylight every few days (sort of like a battery being charged). On solid white rubber, the Sea Glow does not need to penetrate very far at all.”
Spotted: OnSmash
Year of the Retros?
The infamous Jordan XI aka Space Jams have finally hit the streets. And even with tempertures below the freezing mark in New York, Thousands lined up at various sneaker spots to get there hands and “feet” on them. Cold didnt stop these sneakerheads from getting their fresh pair last night and neither did the pushing and shoving to make sure they got theirs. It was also reported that were plenty of fights/altercations around the U.S (Atlanta,LA, and New York City).in regards to these sneakers. I guess people take the term fresh to death literally…
The 25 Coolest Sneaker Designs of 2009
With the year coming to a close, it’s always good to reflect back on the significant moments that shook 2009. In the sneaker culture, Kanye West made history by releasing his Nike Air Yeezy and Louis Vuitton shoes, both of which are featured on BusinessWeek’s The 25 Coolest Sneaker Designs of 2009.
Ralph Lauren’s Polo Grey Ranger “cookie Boot” By Ronnie Fieg of David Z
David Z. designer Ronnie Fieg has teamed up with the legendary Polo Ralph Lauren brand to bring us the Grey version of the Ranger “Cookie” Boot. This boot, which drops “Black” Friday, features a Grey suede upper, wide buckles, and boat shoe-like toe area. To celebrate this release, Fieg rounded up a group of individuals who have influenced his work for a photo shoot in Central Park. Photographed by PJ Monte, the shoot featured: Ronnie Fieg, Marcus Troy, Emeka Obi (StreetLevel/10.Deep), Joshua Kissi (Street Etiquette), Irving Jimenez (Creative Recreation), Sean Munro (Public School), and Niyah Kerr (DavidZ).
Available November 27th at DavidZ.com and the David Z. flagship store in Soho.
Via StreetLevel.com
The Hundreds: Game Day Adam Bomb New Era
via F.Luxury.B
AIR jordan 1 retro high
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lanvin low tops
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Caramel Lanvin High tops
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Fabolous Rocking the new Crooks and Castle
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