Best Collection Ever " The Perfect Pair '

captainjackson said:
 
his girls shoes alone blow alot of peoples collections away, best collection featured ever on nicekicks.From what I
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From what I remember, his girls shoes were a lot more interesting than most of the ones he showed from his own personal collection.
 
I also think he has the best collection I've ever SEEN..... That being said people like solesupreme, phase, jay etc. haven't fully showed off their collection like this guy has. But again, until they decide to showcase it, this guy has the best. Props to him
 
I don't know what you are talking about. This guy had a 20 minute video and I've still seen more pairs of shoes from any of those guys than were featured in this vid.

Jay has more PEs of certain single Jordan sigs than shoes that were shown in the entire video.
 
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I guess I will just never understand the point of buying PE's.  If I am not going to wear the shoes then no reason for me to buy them.  If I don't like the shoes then no reason to buy them, and if they are PE's they are probably very rare.  To each his own, if I bought every pair of shoes I ever wanted then I would start on the next task buying clothes that compliments then.  What is the fascination with buying stuff just to see in a case.  Do PE's come in a FSR if not the chances of a PE coming in a size 9.5 or 10.  Slim to none.
 
TitanG545 said:
I guess I will just never understand the point of buying PE's.  If I am not going to wear the shoes then no reason for me to buy them.  If I don't like the shoes then no reason to buy them, and if they are PE's they are probably very rare.  To each his own, if I bought every pair of shoes I ever wanted then I would start on the next task buying clothes that compliments then.  What is the fascination with buying stuff just to see in a case.  Do PE's come in a FSR if not the chances of a PE coming in a size 9.5 or 10.  Slim to none.
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True PEs very rarely come outside the athlete's size. However, "PE" is one of the many terms the culture vultures have wiped their butts with. So, who knows what people are actually referring to when they say "PE" nowadays - hyperstrikes, friends and family releases, samples. Ray Allens and Q-Riches that were released at House of Hoops...

But, I don't understand why people always comment about buying shoes that people don't wear. I just had this discussion. There's an aspect of people's fascination with sneakers that is simply about owning and rocking sneakers, and then there's a collector's mentality that some, but not all, possess. Would you go on a stamp collecting message board and ask why somebody would buy a stamp that they aren't going to affix to a letter and mail? If you can understand why people collect ANYTHING, then you can understand why people do that for sneakers. ...When somebody buys a game used basketball, do you ask why they don't take it down to the local court to hoop with it?

As I said before, once you get to certain depth in this hobby, the distinction of stuff you will wear and stuff you won't wear sort of becomes irrelevant. Personally, I have more stuff than I could probably ever realistically wear (at least unless I quit my office job), so what difference does it make whether it's a pair of GR AMs that never get around to getting out of their box or a pair of PEs that don't fit me? Either way, it's not like dudes at this "level" of the hobby are at a loss for things to wear.

There's nothing more lame to me than sneaker elitism, so I don't say this to try to sound cool at all, but simply for a sense of perspective. If you ever get to the point when you have 500 or 1,000 pairs of shoes (and, I'm not saying that's something anybody into shoes should necessarily "aspire" to) your perspective on all this will likely change. Some people take it more seriously at that point, other less seriously. To me, it's like pairs I wear, pairs I don't wear - what's the difference.

That said, 99.8% of my collection is in my size range. Though I do own many samples, many of which I don't wear.
 
BIP Roberts said:
True PEs very rarely come outside the athlete's size. However, "PE" is one of the many terms the culture vultures have wiped their butts with. So, who knows what people are actually referring to when they say "PE" nowadays - hyperstrikes, friends and family releases, samples. Ray Allens and Q-Riches that were released at House of Hoops...

But, I don't understand why people always comment about buying shoes that people don't wear. I just had this discussion. There's an aspect of people's fascination with sneakers that is simply about owning and rocking sneakers, and then there's a collector's mentality that some, but not all, possess. Would you go on a stamp collecting message board and ask why somebody would buy a stamp that they aren't going to affix to a letter and mail? If you can understand why people collect ANYTHING, then you can understand why people do that for sneakers. ...When somebody buys a game used basketball, do you ask why they don't take it down to the local court to hoop with it?

As I said before, once you get to certain depth in this hobby, the distinction of stuff you will wear and stuff you won't wear sort of becomes irrelevant. Personally, I have more stuff than I could probably ever realistically wear (at least unless I quit my office job), so what difference does it make whether it's a pair of GR AMs that never get around to getting out of their box or a pair of PEs that don't fit me? Either way, it's not like dudes at this "level" of the hobby are at a loss for things to wear.

There's nothing more lame to me than sneaker elitism, so I don't say this to try to sound cool at all, but simply for a sense of perspective. If you ever get to the point when you have 500 or 1,000 pairs of shoes (and, I'm not saying that's something anybody into shoes should necessarily "aspire" to) your perspective on all this will likely change. Some people take it more seriously at that point, other less seriously. To me, it's like pairs I wear, pairs I don't wear - what's the difference.

That said, 99.8% of my collection is in my size range. Though I do own many samples, many of which I don't wear.
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I guess I fit in the category of being someone who just buys sneakers and wears them.  I can kind of see where a collector comes from, in the sense that I like to wear my shoes but keep them pristine for as long as possible.  They just take it to another level by never wearing them.  If I ever get to the point of having 500 or 1,000 pairs of shoes, trust they will all get worn.  Some might not get worn for a year or two but they will get worn.  Also I will certainly need another house if that is the case.

Personally I don't understand stamp collecting, for those that do it, enjoy.  Just trying to get some good ole fashion dialog back and forth on the forum with no animosity.  Good looking out on the response.
 
TitanG545 said:
I guess I fit in the category of being someone who just buys sneakers and wears them.  I can kind of see where a collector comes from, in the sense that I like to wear my shoes but keep them pristine for as long as possible.  They just take it to another level by never wearing them.  If I ever get to the point of having 500 or 1,000 pairs of shoes, trust they will all get worn.  Some might not get worn for a year or two but they will get worn.  Also I will certainly need another house if that is the case.

Personally I don't understand stamp collecting, for those that do it, enjoy.  Just trying to get some good ole fashion dialog back and forth on the forum with no animosity.  Good looking out on the response.
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Again, just for perspective.

I work a 9 to 5 office job - I can't wear sneakers to the office. I'm older, married, and often work late, so most nights I don't leave my house again once I return home from work. Usually if I go out for dinner or drinks, we'll go straight from the office or whatever. Suffice to say, more than half the days out of the year, I don't put on a single pair of sneakers all day. ...Maybe to walk the dog or something, but usually to do that I just throw on whatever is sitting out.

So, if I have hundreds of pairs of sneakers, we are talking about YEARS that it would take to go through wearing each pair - and that's assuming I'm not buying anything new during those years.

Also, I have stuff that I've stockpiled from when things weren't like how they are now - when retros would hit clearance, or when you could go to a mom and pop, ask to root around a basement and then work out a deal for stuff that was actually "dead" stock. At one point, I had more than a half dozen pairs of every original Jordan 11. ...Now, you might say that's dumb - and maybe it is. But, what should I do with that? I could sell them. Or, I could keep them. But, should I put on a pair of 2001 Black Infra 6s on Saturday and then whip out a brand new pair from the next box and wear that pair the following day?

You are looking at all of this way too practically. It is impractical to have a stash of shoes that large, so a fair amount of the associated behavior would be impractical. You are looking for practicality in something that is impractical by nature. And, if you got to that stage of collecting, you'd be impractical too - it's a prerequisite to having a collection that size, so you'd act differently.

People always claim they'd be a certain way from the outside, but when they get on the inside, they usually display the same behavior they judge, don't understand, and criticize from the outside. ...It's not a coincidence that a lot of the people deep in the hobby do the same things. ...People always talk about all the wise and sensible things they'd do if they win the lottery, yet every study I've seen indicates that more than half of the people who do wind up in bankruptcy. So, clearly human behavior isn't a simple as looking at somebody else in a situation and knowing with certainly how differently you'd act.

This is all just food for thought. No animosity or anything. I'm not saying that the way certain people act is better or worse, or it's cool or wack to have X number of shoes, or samples and PEs vs. GRs. At the end of the day, I hope we each do what makes us happy. My only point is that people who make these grand judgments are speculating about human behavior, which is complex and often poorly understood even by its own actors.
 
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^Jay would most likely decline a visit from them. he just likes to show and wear his collections through forums and instagram
 
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