so i've been in the shoe game for about 15 years now and this is one of the sneakers that i got in
the past i had for a long time got rid of them and i kind of wish i never did so in today's
video i'm going to be giving you guys a short story a little bit of history a partial review
and all the other opinions and thoughts along the way explaining as to why i got rid of this sneaker
and why i had to get it back in my collection and if you guys didn't know by now my name is dj and
this is the dna show so when you're a sneaker head and you have been collecting shoes for a long time
some kicks simply come and go along the way you just don't hold on to everything with this shoe
in particular i picked these up when i first started collecting shoes and i was in love with
them and for some reason a lot of people didn't really like them that much and that was completely
fine with me because i had loved the sneaker i love the design the colorway the materials
and all those other fancy things which we will get into a little bit later in the video
but overall at the end of the day i was in love with the sneaker and i still love it to this day
but there was one big problem they were a size 12 and my foot was growing and i no longer fit
the shoe anymore because now i'm a size 13. so from my freshman year to my junior year in high
school i went from a size 10 and a half to a 13 and as i was building up my collection over that
time i realized i couldn't keep everything because i simply couldn't fit it anymore
but with these in particular i held on to them even though i knew i couldn't fit them because
not everybody liked them and sometimes when it comes to a sneaker that not everybody really
cares about or it's not a hyped up collaboration it just simply falls under the radar and it's kind
of hard to find later down the line so i know by now you guys are probably asking the question what
shoe are you even talking about i'm talking about the pacific sevens now i know this is an issue for
everybody but at the end of the day this is a shoe for me and my collection and i am so happy
to have these back so before i go along with the story we gotta talk a little bit about the history
because you know we always gotta cover that here on the channel now this shoe in particular doesn't
have too much history but one thing that we do know is these came out on april 15th of 2006
and retail was 130 bucks and i'm telling you right now those were definitely the glory years compared
to the retail prices these days so to give you guys a short glimpse in a blast from the past
let's talk about a couple air jordan 7's that came out around that time that were also very iconic
and a lot of people attached on too we had the olympic sevens the cardinal sevens the chambray
sevens the citrus sevens and another one of my personal favorites the women's twirl yellow sevens
those were extremely fire and i definitely had those in my collection as well until i grew out of
them i was very sad when i let those go hopefully one day i could find another pair i don't even
know if they made a size 14 and a half in women's but that jordan 7 that colorway extremely fire so
there's two reasons to why i sold these back in 2013. reason number one and this is probably the
biggest reason as to why i did it but during that time i had kind of went through like a midlife
crisis type thing there was a lot of stuff going on in my life in 2013 and i just needed to get
rid of all the extra stuff all the extra things and i knew i could get money from it and it was
going to be a valuable thing and i could use it either way and i could use it to something else so
i kind of knew like okay what can i get rid of that i just don't need anymore and i i just
literally sold every single pair of shoes in my collection that was not a size 13. i didn't
keep it no matter how hard it was to get no matter how valuable or cheap it was no matter uh any no
sentimental value you name it i just got rid of it every single thing that wasn't a size 13 i got rid
of so knowing that my pair from high school was a size 12 i had to get rid of them and the day that
i got rid of that shoe i told myself it's probably going to be kind of hard to get simply because
when i had posted them for sale i realized not that many people were even selling the shoe which
meant if i tried to get the shoe later down the line it's probably going to be really hard to get
especially in a good condition because typically the longer a shoe goes on and it gets worn and
worn and worn over the years if you can't find a good pair that's been lightly worn or dead stock
they're probably going to be beat up and tore up i mean this shoe is what 15 years old so a
few years ago i kind of went on a soft hunt just kind of opening my eyes back up and looking for
different sneakers that i got rid of in the past that i might not have been my size and different
things like that because i have easily owned over a thousand pairs of shoes in my collection and
been sitting on a bunch of different things over the years and kind of this may come and this might
go type thing and oh maybe i'll get that back later because i got three different versions of
that retro or whatever it may be so with all that being said i told myself hey let's see if the shoe
actually retros first it's been about 10 years since the shoe came out and you know what happens
with jordan brand nothing is safe these days so i waited to see if the shoe would be retroed i
didn't see any signs of the shoe being retro and then i saw that this was the year of the seven
coming up and i was like okay maybe they'll be retro in it i didn't see any news of the pacific 7
specifically being retro that's what kind of put me on a deeper hunt over this past year so i was
scrolling online kind of here and there just searching every now and then and then i ended
up coming up on this pair right here they were worn a couple times and they are extremely clean
there's no separation or cracking and the shoes and the outsoles and the uppers look really really
nice so i immediately put an offer on these the dude got back to me i ended up picking these up
and i'm telling you right now again i am a very happy camper i ended up picking these up for 225
bucks and i actually ended up selling my old pair for around the same price eight years ago so to
think that i was able to go all this time removed and still be able to get this shoe back in my
collection for around the same price and know that hey maybe one day if i decide to get rid of again
which i don't plan on anytime soon at all but if i ever do i could potentially sell them for more or
the same amount of money and i'd still be good i know the jordan 7 in particular is not every
single person's favorite sneaker we know there's a lot of hype around jordan ones and now jordan 2
is with everybody else hyping them up but either way we know that the jordan 7 isn't on the top
for everybody's list and i completely understand that especially with a colorway like this that's
a lot more unique it doesn't really go with every single outfit and not really bulls related and all
the stuff so i get all those other things and we have definitely seen other random retro air
jordan 7 color ways but these ones in particular the leather the pebbled leather that they have
on the upper the quality the colorway just the overall just materials and everything when it
comes to this shoe i think they are extremely dope i think a lot of people are sleeping on this shoe
and when people see this shoe in hand they're like wow these are actually really nice they may not
like the colorway but they still appreciate and respect the quality of the sneaker and
i think something for me that really stuck back in the past that i still kind of carry today is
when it comes to sneakers i'm always looking at the quality and these really stuck on to me back
15 years ago and when i got these in the mail and opened them out the box i was definitely
excited to touch them again so this is a short story of a new addition that's been re-brought
back into my collection i don't how do you how do you say is it a new addition to the collection
or is it like i got them back i don't know you guys tell me the exact wording for that because
i i can't say this is my first time having this shoe there's been plenty of shoes that i'm like
oh i got it got rid of it got it again got rid of it got the retro got rid of it got it again got it
i don't know there's just a bunch of different things so over the years we have these fluctuating
cycles of like oh i'm gonna have all these and i'm gonna have all those and i don't really need
these anymore but damn i wish i got it back like it's just all those type of things so this is one
of those sneakers i really really appreciate these a lot i'm excited to add these back to
the collection plan on holding on to these for the long haul hopefully they don't go crazy and
just fall apart on me or anything like that that she was already 15 years old so i could definitely
see something like that happen which is another reason as to why i got rid of all my og sneakers
with the i'm talking about og og stuff and the facebox stuff and the different eras like that
because everything from the 90s and the early 2000s i mean just think about it like
it's all falling apart you want to collect it you want to love it you want to appreciate it but then
you got to worry about putting a new soul on it and a new midsole and all these different things
like that so that was kind of the reason why i had got some of the older stuff out of my collection
and kind of tried to stay in that last 10 or 15 years range of sneakers so hopefully these stand
the tail of time and we shall see in the future but either way i'm happy to have them back and
add them to my jordan 7 collection again i hope you guys enjoyed this i look forward to giving
you guys more stories and videos about all my sneakers and explaining how i felt about it
then and now and how i got it back and all those other different things like that just kind of
giving you guys a video journal of my collection and different parts and bits of it and telling
short stories along the way so i hope you guys enjoy this i appreciate you as always all right
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