AIR PRESTOS.

COMPANY: Nike
STYLE NAME: Air Presto
ALIAS: Prestos
COLOR: (top-bottom)
Medium-Grey/White-Comet Red (011) (China) (05/07/2000) (B)
Lt Graph/Scrmg Blu/Met Zinc (042) (Vietnam) (06/10/2000) (C-)
Harbor Blue/Wht Mt Slvr-n-Gry (411) (China) (05/07/2000) (B+)
Black/Zen Gry Harbor Bl-Gl Bl (002) (China) (05/07/2000) (B+)
(Olympic) Ntrl Gry/Comet Red-Obsidian (104242 461) (Vietnam) (05/07/2000) (B-)
White/Oriental Poppy Skylt-Black (181) (Vietnam) (04/06/2000) (D)
White/Orange Peel-Black (182) (China) (02/04/2000) (D)
STYLE #: 104231 (except Olympics 104242)
SIZE: All Medium (Mens 9-11)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Varied (See above)
DATE MANUFACTURED: Varied (See above)
CONDITION: Varied (See above)
ACQUIRED: Varied
OTHER COMMENTS: Welcome to the Presto explosion. Really, this is the anithesis of my sneaker obsession. I had more. Part of what I threw out, but this shoe was really the equivalent of crack cocaine for me. Priced right ($84.99), mad colors, the right season (hot summer), and comfortable as hell. In retrospect I probably went too far. The top 2 grey ones were good with jeans. The next 2 were sort of a mistake. I actually wanted the light blue lightning model (4th one down), but accidentally bought the dark ones. I blame Nike.com for misrepresenting the product shots. The light blue lightning joints looked hot with my Evisu jeans. (That was 2000! Betta recognize.) The Olympics has a funny story. HF managed to convince me that Prestos are even better if you remove the laces and cut off those plastic finger cage things on the side. So of course I tried it and they sucked! Maybe my foot was wider than his or something, but they basically fell apart on me. So what does any self respecting sneakerhead do? Buy another pair of course. You owe me Hiroshi! The last 2 are dogged to death. I remember when I just got the Orange ones, it was my first time breakin them out and I was riding my bike to work in the hot summer. I was near Union Square Park when I hit this crazy Exxon Valdez like oil slick on the street and completely wiped out (IN OIL!) with my new kicks! White kicks! Why God why!?! Anyway, as you can see, the effects of the oil damage are still prevalent after repeated washings. Makes you wonder what the Alaskan Coastline must look like today.
Some funny things I noticed about these shoes: A lot of them were made on the same day. Even in different countries! Does Nike manage its production schedule this strict or am I just lucky? Also found it interesting that the Olympics got their own style # even though it's exactly the same shoe but with different graphics. Finally, I find the color code on these shoes dumbfounding. How does the lighting joint get a color code of 002? I know 001 is white. And these are 002? Must be a nightmare to organize the colors at Nike.