Indiana Black Instagram – Let’s try something else.
These are Air Jordan 1 Bloodlines, named for their red piping around the black colour blocking. In the sneaker world they are considered a “brick” which alludes to their poor value in the reseller market, making them easier to acquire. There’s a lot of reasons this can happen to a shoe, for this one in particular it was a timing issue, being released among a heavily saturated market of similar shoes with similar colour blocking that includes the Defiant and Gym Red lines.
I managed to find a pair and decided to customize them by painting the heel cap and upper panel in red to mimic the famous “black toes” AJ1. Resell has Black Toes ridiculously out of my price range as they are part of the iconic Chicago colourway:. Chicago
Banned
Bred Toes
Black Toes
All four of these colour blockings are variations on red, white, and black for Jordan’s NBA team: the Chicago bulls. They also make up the majority of colour blockings for all Air Jordan releases.
Hilariously, Jordan didn’t even play in the Air Jordan during their initial drop, but a similar looking shoe called the Fly Ship. Marketing magic happened when the NBA decided to fine Jordan for wearing the colourways and then Nike ran the famous “the NBA banned us, but they can’t ban you from wearing them”; hence the named “banned” for the blacked out red/black colour blocking.
Other fun facts: Jordan didn’t like Nike, he was an addidas man but due to the changing hands of their owners and a very clear direction of Nike’s scouting agent, Nike managed to land the biggest sneaker deal of them all. What a different world we could of had. | Posted on 06/Mar/2020 15:23:07
