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Has any shoe been more of a whipping boy for a whole miserable subculture than the Nike Dunk High? It's still an excellent design that works well. There's just not much more that you can do with it except regress a little. While we're loving Fuse, Lunar and Flywire technologies, for the time being, they have no place on a design dating back to 1985. These cropped up in the showroom late last year with no hoo-ha whatsoever and harked back to a happier time, but each carrying a curiously inappropriate lace colour. Unsurprisingly, the Dunk is a shoe that we've run out of words to use in this part of the site with regards to this shoe, so it's best we proceed with some dull observations.

All 3 makeups look eerily similar to the kind of Dunks we used to see in Boon magazine ads. The sort that had you hitting Lycos to find a currency converter to calculate the Yen to Pound ratio. That's a good thing. Leather and nubuck is a great combination. The fluro lace on the light bone/black versions is at odds with the colourway and the yellow lace packaged with the militaristic green/dark grey is wrong too. But somehow it all works, and for both those makeups, the addition of matching coloured canvas is a decent point-of-difference. The Golden Harvest versions look like the SB 'Three Bears' variations trapped and shaved, and the overall feel is co.jp throwback. Any collection that harks back to a time when we'd gladly perform self-surgery to spend our money on hi-topped rarities is something worth highlighting. This trio is available to pre-order in the Crooked Tongues store for a July release...