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Uhm, the leather is on the upper and on the toe-box. He also chose to go with the patent snakeskin instead of the synthetic leather on the outer. You should get your eyes checked.Originally Posted by Flowsomuch
ZombieJesus12 wrote:
Am I missing something? There's like no leather at all in these. The quality better be good, damn, it's 140 bucks for plastic/flywire/lunacrap with a heel pocket of zoom.
Ummm, my point is that the shoe is maybe, at the most generous, like 20% leather. And it's a low top. Which means the total area of the shoe is prettysmall. Thus the leather parts are pretty insignificant. So while maybe I was exaggeration a bit when made the initial post, I'm still right. There'snot much quality or material in this shoe at all. And I'm pretty sure the patent snakeskin is just fake synthetic crap.
But - even if the patent were real, IT'S SNAKESKIN! Which means it's not leather - which comes from cows - but from snakes. So that means patentsnakeskin, by definition, is NOT LEATHER. Is this all too complicated for you? Now, obviously Nike is the cheapest shoe company in the world and they barelyput real leather on signature shoes anymore, so it stands to reason that they're not using real snakeskin because of costs. It also makes more sense forthe company to use a synthetic material for the "snakeskin patent" part, seeing as how getting all those colors on real patent or real snakeskinwould be very hard and very expensive. I actually just checked on the Nike site, and they use the phrase "reptile patent," which again means reptileskin, and it's also further proof that it's fake; they'd specific an animal if it were legit.
So, what have we learned? We learned flowsomuch, in addition to having a name that reminds me of menstruation, thinks snakes and cows are the same animal. Wealso learned that even though there is an option for leather on the Kobe IVs, there is very little leather on the shoe as a whole.
Bottom line is that the difference in quality between the AZK1s and these is staggering. Nike has been famous for cutting costs wherever they can, but for apremiere athlete in their biggest shoe release this year, you'd think they could manage to limit the plastic and put a shoe's worth of cushioning inthere. That isn't to say I dislike this shoe completely, I think it looks good and I like lows. But it's still sad how poor the product they'reputting out is.