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The whole NSW line of Nike Sportswear QS footwear releases has been of significant interest to us lately. Usually a lifestyle spin on performance is the kind of thing that has us rolling our eyes — after all, given the strength of Nike's current running and training output, why should we care for a more expensive variation in a light brown box and rather than an orange one? Women have been very, very shortchanged on new shoes in the Quickstrike ...

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The Boston Super is a shoe that we love in the Crooked Tongues office. This 1984 running design represents adidas at the top of their game and it's a shoe that resonates right now for all the wrong reasons given the recent tragedy in its namesake. But that can be turned into a positive and after an appropriate delay, we're finally getting the adidas Consortium Boston Super OG Pack. This model has been altered in some strange ways ...

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It's a good weekend for fans of Bodega's collaboration work. This weekend sees the release of the latest Saucony and Bodega Elite pieces, plus their new collaboration with adidas for Consortium. While the adi Boston Super they've helped put together is very, very subtle, these Sauconys aren't. What is low key however, is the way these models apply the Grid cushioned sole unit of the Grid 9000 to the Master Control and Shadow 6000 uppers — the ...

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Nike Air Max 90s will never, ever die. They might, but we're so confident that the web's evolution or our own mortality will mean future generations can't find that proclamation and mock us to our faces, that we feel confident about declaring it. There's a lot of variations of that shoe out there — some are from a month ago and we still can't remember what they looked like, but some are decent. These Strata Grey ...

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Nike Air Flight 89s might be one of the greatest shoes of all time. We know that's a grand statement to make and it's even wilder in the knowledge that the Mike Aveni and Tinker Hatfield types were putting out some killer designs for basketball use back then, but this one really resonates with us. The use of that Jordan IV tooling and the mid height made them easier to break out with shorts than some of the ...

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Theadidas Pro Conference Hi is the true spirit of 1988 in a shoe. Forget the premium, oft lusted after shoes of the era — this was a mid-priced drop that brought adidas D.N.A. to a consumer that didn't necessarily have the loot to ball-out with a pair of Metro Attitude. With ridges on the heel like the Ewing-endorsed drops of the time but a slimmer, less tech appearance (in fact, the Pro Conference Hi feels more like a ...

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The New Balance M998 might be the best shoe on the market right now. It's a 20 year old design but it's flawless in its execution. What has annihilated our memories of past masterpieces is shoddy retros - factories change and tooling gets lost, turning classics into a skewed misinterpretation of shoes we've lost and loved. Because the M998 is still Maine-made, it's a beautiful shoe. We love to wear these shoes everyday in all conditions and ...

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It's ASICS Gel Lyte III madness via Ronnie Fieg today in NYC and beyond the hype, there's some inline editions that are killing it too. We recently heard rumours that the ASICS heritage line would be sidelined in favour of some Onitsuka releases, but then we saw what ASICS have got in the pipeline for the end of the year (three resurrected silhouettes that are all excellent) and we realised that we something might have been misheard somewhere ...

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Once upon a time, the blogs were perceived to be the enemy of true information with their excitable sneak peeks and lack of P.R. spiel on showing a first look at a shoe, but lately, even the brands themselves have been upping shots of early samples that don't match the finished article. The Nike Sportswear Beaches of Rio Air Max pack is the perfect example of that - back when NikeInc.com announced this pack with official imagery a ...

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Here's more made in the U.S.A goodness from New Balance. High numbers and a high price tag (even though, contrary to misinformation, big numbers on NB don't necessarily determine price) are the marks of this 1985 running masterpiece that helped set the bar for what a performance shoe could be, back when the supple nature of premium nubuck was considered a benefit rather than a weighty hinderence. People treat these things with kid gloves, but when ...

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