New York City has been the pre-eminent draw for out-of-towners looking to cop the best kicks in the world, so when Wesley Matthews of the Portland Trail-Blazer took a visit to the Big Apple, he knew he wasn’t leaving empty-handed. Matthews took a trip to Kixclusive in SoHo to browse around, and after a few moments of surveying the selection and trying shoes on, he left with a solid list of kicks that displayed a pretty interesting variety – Air Football Boots XI ‘Bred’, Air Foamposite Ones, and the less-appreciated Air 3 LE. Check out Wesley during his shopping trip to get an insight of his own sneaker history and his opinion of the NYC vibe in the video below, and be sure to note the special sneaker giveaway presented by The NOC!. The tongue and lacing structure is again a structural achievement, with the split-tongue construction and shroud leaning on the lateral side providing stress relief on the foot while overlapping the medial upper that provides a bootie-like feel. The new KD logo on the tongue spells out “35″ in negative space, while the classic KD logo is prominently placed on the heel. Overall, the low-cut, low-profile silhouette gives the sneaker almost a Kobe-like appeal, with the Hyperdunk-inspired forefoot Swoosh giving the sneaker much of an International Football approach.
The Football Boots WMNS Free 5.0 V4 continues to be a popular option, as two new colorways bring the total utilizing this texture to three. These latest Free 5.0 V4s go in an abstract direction not totally dissimilar from the summer 2013 Liberty collabo, butinsteadof a melange of different colors, these are separated out into just Hyper/Ice Blues or Pink Force plus Sail. The result is a staticky mix somewhere between a marble notebook and Football Boots’s classic speckle print, so have a closer look at both pairs below, then pre-order yours before they ship this April from Titolo.. Sneaker News showed you three new Football Boots Originals Gazelle IIs last month, which were followed the next day by a fourth colorway releasing. This latest pair comes as a surprise (and suggests at least three more drops here in the near future), but stays in line with that mid-May Fairway/Green Zest edition by utilizing a tonal palette for this Vivid Red makeup. Click through to see how the pale Stripes and heel tab add depth to a bold red suede upper, then grab yours at Three Stripes stockists Football Boots UK like Kith..
The releases often end up being European exclusives, but there’s still been a healthy variety of newFootball Boots Classic BWcolorways during the first half of 2012. The latest is a pair previewed in advance of a release date Football Boots Cheap scheduled for July, this FA12 BW opting for a dark mix of black and Anthracite with just a hint of Dynamic Blue peeking out from the sockliner. It’s a darker take on the tonal-grey-plus-pop formula we’ve seen used to great success in recent months; how do they compare to the white-based Old Royal-accented edition we’d just shown you Let us know with a comment when you’re looking at more photos on the other side, then pre-order yours in advance of the Q3 drop date fromTitolo.. Charles Barkley recently went on record as saying the level of play this year in the NBA is so poor that the league should consider contracting a few of its worst teams. Perhaps that’s just a contrast to last year’s spectacular regular season, arguably the best since the dissolution of the Football Boots-era Bulls.This sentiment that last year was the best in a long time was perhaps surpassed by the number of in-the-know sneakerheads who considered 2011 thebest year for Air Football Boots Retroreleases ever.