revivedzack - only one of those in my collection pic are og, and im hanging onto those. =) Tho I am selling off 70% of my total collection, have way too many.
jthagreat - Examples are numerous, command forces, ballistic forces, force 180's, nearly all pre 1996 basketball shoes, many 90's running shoes, some turf shoes pre 97, etc. Retros also, like griffey 1's are polyurethane if the og was also. Nearly everyting with an air bubble also has some poly fill in it too, thats why they cloud up over time. They dont use it tons anymore that I can see, instead going with more synthetic materials, which as I said may or may not age any better than poly would. Poly is mainly a concern for shoes over 10 years of age.
Realise that nike doesent make kicks to last decades anyhow, they fall apart after awhile on purpose so youll have to buy more, its a common industry practice called planned obsolesence, applies to cars, computers, basically anything and everything to some degree. And since the rate of change in civilization increases over time, older shoes will prolly outlast newer ones, and ones in the future less time than that as they continually use newer, cheaper and less durable materials to keep prices in step with costs and inflation. If you have a decent sample of the past 20 years of nikes shoes and can examine them you can see the marked decline in quality. Its the old saying of 'they dont make em like they used to', well no, they dont, and its not always for the better, at least not until nike wakes up and gets thier act together.
Personally im holding out for the 2015 air mag's!
