/fa/ - Fashion

>>15285886
Because its one the most ubiquitous sneakers, they were huge before these teenagers were even born. You can easily google this since its such a common shoe, here a video about the history:
https://youtu.be/oL4vHWgTYwQ

Essentially it was a great basketball shoe for the time in 1982. In the 1990s it became a status symbol for people especially in NYC, it was street wear before street wear existed. Since I have about a decade on these 'teenagers' it was actually Nelly's song in 2002 that just put this shoe at another level for me personally.

Also, >>15287922 & >>15288515 are completely accurate, which is the case for most Nike product compared to what was 15-20 years ago. Today's AF1s seem to be made from fisher price plastic, they used to be made with real high quality leather.