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Today was a day of decent weather and World Basketball Festival fever in South London, with some Nike-endorsed play from local legends and a few of our friends, music and proof that Brixton is one of the few places in the UK where the game is taken very seriously indeed. But no event can pass without some tie-in footwear, so these Nike Air Force 1s were made to coincide with the proceedings. Part of a collection that also includes Barcelona ...

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Every now and again we push the remit of what we can talk about here on a non-sneaker level. DMs, Clarks and visvim have led to some low-level debate before, but we think Cole Haan's LunarGrand project qualifies here. Personally, we've never struggled with the notion of ditching the sports footwear for the purposes of a wedding or funeral, but we know that some find that a dilemma and we kind of respect the commitment. In the right ...

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After 2008's pre-Olympic Nike Hyperdunk premiere, it's safe to say that more than a few people on these shores alienated by the era's Nike Basketball output (many great shoes, but most were difficult to wear with jeans) were lured back in by Flywire. The Hyperdunk was a perfect example of what we always thought shoes would look like in the 21st century, but those similarities to the Air Mag were notable too (as we discussed with Tinker ...

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Everyone is described as a class act when they leave us — it's kind of the done thing — but in the case of Mr. Mark Cadwaladr aka Ch33ky, a longstanding CT family member and decent, passionate contributor online and in the real world, it's entirely appropriate. A mixture of time differences between countries and a real sense of loss meant that this entry went up a little later than it should have done and we're just trawling through ...

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Who doesn't like the adidas Grand Prix? It's a terrace classic and as we understand it, there's plenty of NYC summertime love for this shoe too. That's a couple of key genesis points for much of the shoes we love in a solitary silhouette. Circa 1979, adidas was killing it with their clean court silhouettes. The sole we once loved on the Lendl Indoor twinned with the classic looks on that upper, with the perforated toe ...

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Nike have resurrected the Mayfly, but they seem to have found the key to eternal life, because now, the shoe that would last little more than a marathon isn't really a Mayfly any more. From a brand communication standpoint that must make PR'ing these NSW editions hell, but they're pretty yet pointless. Not only did the Mayfly have the mother of all performance gimmicks with its self-destructive functionality for the kind of lightweight superiority that Bill Bowerman ...

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There's long been an irreverence to Nike's footwear designs, harking back to the early days when their rebel runners disrupted the status quo, but few shoes retain as much mystery as the Nike Air Safari. The shape, the materials, the colours and the pattern...what does it all mean? After all, this shoe may well be the totem of sneaker collector culture, attracting casual observers as well as the fanatics since its 1987 debut, subsequent disappearance and early ...

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We singled out the Roshe Run as one of the best new Nike silhouettes we'd seen late last year and it's gratifying to see that we're not alone in that opinion. We've sung their praises for Complex, worn them, sold them and bought them for our mums. They're a simple shoe that just delivers with denim, shorts, chino or camo. The Roshe is comfortable, pretty affordable and seems to get some attention too. It's ...

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Remember when Nike put out a Dunk that was reportedly inspired by Joe Strummer? That seems to upset a few people. Well, this Nike "Clash" pack isn't inspired by the band at all — it's a Euro 2012 tie-in, except it's pretty loose. Still, we prefer that to a Clash tie-in - the Futura collaborations are as close as we'd like to see Nike getting to them. This is about the football, turning geezer friendly white-on-white pub shoes ...

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The Nike Air Current is a better shoe than the Nike Air Flow. We base that grand statement on the way the shoe just looks less awkward in its transition from a more conventional rear to that neoprene toe. We also think this 1989 masterpiece is the granddaddy of a whole lot of our favourite shoes - the lack of swoosh here is certainly a primer for what the Huarache made into mass appeal 2 years later. Bruce Kilgore is a ...

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IN STOCK: Click here to buy the adidas Greenstar (Dark Royal, White) in the Crooked Tongues store now. IN STOCK: Click here to buy the adidas Greenstar (Dark Green, White) in the Crooked Tongues store now. The adidas Greenstar is a shoe that's steeped in legend. There's a lot of adidas stories that have never been properly told and folk have a tendency to overlook just how important this model is in shaping adidas as we love it ...

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IN STOCK: Click here to buy the adidas Pro Shell (Black, White) in the Crooked Tongues store now. IN STOCK: Click here to buy the adidas Pro Shell (White, Black) in the Crooked Tongues store now. adidas are spoiling us in July. The Pro Shell is one of the marvels of sports footwear design — a perfect union of late '60s, '70s and '80s basketball design from a time when the Germans ruled that market. With the new Consortium line, the ...

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The adidas Marathon TR is a masterpiece and proof of just how good adidas were back in the early 1980s on the running shoe front. Now we see tricked-out takes on every shoe, given a remix to beef them up for offroad wear. The original Marathon was a well-regarded, lithe long distance runner that's been given a few updates over the years, but the Marathon TR has long been a favourite shoe in the Crooked Tongues office. The fact ...

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Still a shoe that's downright presidential, not even the rise of tight denim will dead the Nike Air Force 1. Why? Because it's a cornerstone of US collector culture. It's the same reason that a well made pair of adidas Forest Hills can't fade away either - it has foundations. It might also be the reason that the Dunk took such a plunge post 2007 — it doesn't have the sub-cultural roots beyond The Mix Crew's ...

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"Epic" is a way overused word in the internet world, but it's apt when it comes to these Nikes. The images accompanying this piece aren't particularly epic, but that's what happens when we all rush out prior to a holiday weekend — that snapshot above is from a newsletter and we won't be making a habit of it. Anyway, back to the shoe; the Nike Air Epic is an important shoe. As the top tier running piece ...

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