In honor of @ijapino post the other day on the AJ1 High ‘defiant’, I decided to (literally) dust off my pair and give them another wear.
A couple of reasons I really like this shoe:
- the colors are immaculate. Not that super strong regular ‘bulls’ red but a shade lighter. And iirc the sail soles are the first time I recognized ‘sail’ as a solid color
- the interiors are super smooth and feel like pyjamas. Seriously it’s silky smooth.
- when I first saw the ‘leather’ I thought it was terrible quality because of how bad it creases (almost looks like cardboard). After multiple *hard* wears, tho, I prefer the creased up look.
I bought a pair of these at retail, found a slightly used pair (not my size) for like $37, then found ANOTHER slightly used pair for around $37 (in my size) and sold the other two for profit. So pretty sure I’m getting paid to wear this pair.
Imo these aged well (even though I’ve complained about them on my Ig on multiple occasions)…you got any that turned the corner for you after several years?