Chicago Sample
The craziest pair I have ever built. Made for Foxtrot Uniform — and it required months of research to get right.
A study in mid-eighties basketball-shoe construction — built after the rare Korean licence sample of 1985 rather than the production version. That sample ran a wider sole unit than the standard model, so I sourced period-correct 1985 soles for this build. The tongue and heel artwork is my own drawing, worked up from scratch. The collar got a special treatment to echo the cracked ageing of the era, and the white panels were deliberately finished to crack the same way — the '85s didn't use real leather there, and it shows.
Red smooth leather. Printed detailing, drawn by me. Tongue tags with no wording, like the earliest samples of the era. Size tag and production code. Pre-aged. Black Foxtrot Uniform laces.
Every detail earned.
