Originally Posted by
DownyBoy
Originally Posted by DJ Proto J
def not the rarest, but i always heard the story on OG black toe 1's is that MJ decided he didn't like them, and had them stop production to release the chicago red colorway instead... so i guess that means they're kinda rare. i know clean DS or close to DS pairs are rare... prolly certain sizes are rare too.
I don't think this is even remotely true. Source?
well, i don't remember where i heard it, perhaps in the OG AJKO thread. but i recently posted that exact story in there and people in there said they heard the same thing about OG black toes...
i also remember hearing that they are the very first jordan ever, the first colorway, etc.
they are def the shoe he was wearing when he took the "jumpman" logo pix.
i'm gonna email faber and mrmar23 and see what they say...
i did just read this after searching google a bit:
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"Air Jordan 1 "Black Toe," OG. This is the choice of sneaker-collecting legend Ben "Baller" Yang (who claims an EBay auction record for selling a single pair of customized shoes for $33,100 -- proceeds went to benefit the charity of a murdered friend). "If I was to be buried with one shoe, that's what it would be. But I'm not even going to search for it since they're damn near impossible to find."
Yang explains that what makes this 1985 shoe different from the more common black-white-red color scheme is that the red leather that horseshoes around the toebox was briefly changed to black -- hence the nickname "Black Toe."
"They thought it was so weird they altered it back", Yang said. "So these are rare, rare, rare."
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