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MORE POINTLESS REISSUE REQUESTS:
That CT535 and CT660 would be soooo damn nice. My recent interest in NB largely stems from seeing Tiago skate some 550s in that MACBA line in Define. It seems that NB doesn't want to cross streams with the skate line and their mainstream/lifestyle/athletic lines... but it would be very dope if they did.
Would be great to get some of these options but they’d end up turning into dunks and only non skaters would be getting their hands on them.
Was a little surprised how shitty the materials are on the 550s when I saw a deconstruction video on them. Super thin, plastic coated leather.
hate to do a nb defense post but -
to be fair, it seems to be most fashion/casual sneakers at this point have leather like that. especially the ones that one dude does teardowns of. dunks really didn't fare much better iirc. regardless, the 550 is still a good shoe i m o, dunno if i'd skate them though if only because of their lack of boardfeel and they are pretty weighty all things considered
and speaking of dunks, nb has done better (lately) than nike about getting 550's out with enough stock & keeping the bots away. taking a look on their site, they have almost all of their 550 models in stock in most sizes, the only ones sold out being kids models. so here's hoping if any of those CT series make it to reality, we'd be able to get them