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I too find the discussion of wear vs collect interesting.
I could care less about the fake discussion one of the more interesting things to me is the idea of collecting sneakers over wearing them, the idea that we're on niketalk because we're collectors.
I'm here to wear, its nice when sneakers have history but I'm not trying to make a museum here.
The one thing I don't have in common with most here but besides classic models like the dunk, I have very few shoes in multiple colorways.
It's always interesting to see pics with like 30 colors of the same shoe
Personally I do both. I have Stan Smiths and Converse that I wear to work, but the NMD Primeknits are my "love them too much to get them dirty" shoes. They pimp out my closet (have had more than a few guests say how cool they looked) and it makes me really happy to see them when I'm getting ready in the morning.
Never, ever thought I would be one of those guys who liked a shoe too much to wear it, but this shoe changed the game for me. The other day I saw a kid wearing a pair of black OG PKs at the deli and they were completely messed up and had stains all over them. I just shook my head, thinking how much I would kill for a pair of those in my size.