today we're going to be looking at the gray fog in the rattan or the rattan i don't know whatever you
want to call it we're looking at the union tools there is definitely a lot of controversy around
this shoe release in particular we'll get into that later into the video but i definitely want
to make sure i break down the details of these sneakers for you guys and give you guys a full
in-depth look as we go and if you didn't know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show
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subscribers and you could be the next one to help get us there so before we get started with
the nitty gritty details of everything on these sneakers we gotta talk about the history first
now i know everybody hasn't seen all my videos from the past but i've definitely gone a little
bit deeper when it comes to union brand alone but to keep it brief for you in today's video union
is a store that has been around for a pretty long time now and they're heavily based in la and they
have a strong influence on the game especially with their collaborations with jordan brand over
the past five years some notable sneakers that i'm sure a lot of people have seen have been both of
the air jordan ones multiple colorways of the air jordan 4s and i'm sure everybody knows about the
three pack of dunks that recently just came out so with all that being said there has definitely
been a lot of success when it comes to those previous releases that we have seen and that's
partially one of the reasons why there's a lot of demand behind these two shoes right here now
typically when it comes to the air jordan 2 model not everybody is a fan of it me personally i love
the air jordan 2 and i'm excited to see the new collaborations these two colorways in particular
i was on the fence when i first heard about them and i saw them on blogs i was excited to see what
they look like in hand so now i'm definitely gonna be able to give you guys my full opinions about
this shoe but we'll worry about that a little bit later in the video and like i was saying earlier
jordan brand is definitely putting a lot of energy into promoting the air jordan twos in particular
and they're trying to create a lot of hype around that model so you're gonna be collaborating with
a lot of different people throughout the next year or maybe even the next couple years and hopefully
that causes them to bring back classics like the chicago two the white and red two
i really want them to bring back that black and chrome too like that shoe right there i need those
my old pair fell apart because they were so old and now i think it's time for us to get a retro so
anyways i'm getting a little bit off topic because i'm low-key excited about all the twos that are
said to come out over the next couple years and my opportunity to then repurchase these shoes
again and be able to wear them without having to worry about them falling apart but either
way let's talk about this shoe and start breaking down the stylus cuts and materials so i'm going to
start with the gray fog pair first we're going to start with the bottom of the sneaker and as
you can see right here you have your classic air jordan 2 outsole you got your gray with the white
on the center of the foot and then kind of like this infrared pinkish kind of vibe in the top and
around the ball of the foot and going up to the midsole it looks like it's white but honestly
it's kind of got more of like a a very very light gray undertone to it overall loki the whole shoe
has got that gray it doesn't really feel like there's any white hits on the sneaker when it
comes to that aspect now going up to the upper you have a gray suede a very very thick suede honestly
around the toe cap and then the mud guard area and then on the back end where you have the heel tab
typically this is kind of like a plastic material but they actually overlaid this and did it in
another suede right here and it's got the little ribs on the top and and all the same elements as
you normally would get on an air jordan 2 but this time it's just a switch up with the materials so
sometimes we've seen stuff like that for example on the cost air jordan 4 and then they put the
suede on the midsole so that's definitely always cool seeing them switching up materials on areas
where we typically see kind of a standard look on every single shoe so having that little element
is always a nice little touch now just above that you have a gray suede that matches right here with
holes in it and then you have kind of like a sky blue leather just behind that now looking at the
top end of the shoe around the toe the tongue and the ankle you have a very very thick mesh
and on the back end of the ankle i think the best thing i could reference this to besides saying
it looks like a mattress is it's kind of similar to an air jordan 13 but if you look really close
there's little circles that are stitched all throughout right here in these little areas
and also when you look at the top of these boxes it has that same kind of pattern that it gives you
on the side of the ankle right here all throughout the top of the box with those prints another thing
that's similar to the top of the box where it says union season's holiday 2021 that also is
right here with the patch on the side of the ankle and then it's got the other information on
the back side on the inside of the foot nike and the swoosh name and stripe are trademarks and your
guarantee of quality swoosh team nike that all that whoopty whoop now these come standard with
a pair of sail laces they have an additional pair of yellow laces which is similar to the union la
tab that you see right here on the bottom end of the foot and that's another tab that we typically
get on all the air jordan ones or the fours or different things like that there's always some
type of element of that union la branding on those sneakers so i understand why they kept that going
when it comes to this air jordan 2. and then last but not least you have an additional pair of kind
of gray fog colored laces as well i think these will look really good with either the cell laces
or the yellow laces i'm not exactly sure with the fog simply because it just blends in a little
too much you want something that's going to pop especially on a sneaker that's a little bit more
muted like this but again it's all a preference thing let me know how you guys feel down below
in the comment section now taking a look at the tongue right here this has a yellow zigzag stitch
similar to something like we have seen on the air jordan 4 or the air jordan 1 around the back end
of the collar and this patch is a little oversized and it has a little extra stitching on both sides
of it kind of like with the x in a box around there and then little infrared stitches at the
top corners and i'm not sure it's at the bottom of the corner oh yeah and it's at the bottom corners
of this as well so this tongue definitely has a lot of cool details on it to say the least now
onto one of my favorite parts of the sneaker these have a premium tan leather on the sock liner and
behind the tongue you've got that deconstructed tongue right here at the top end of the tongue
as well but overall i think they tried to give us that premium vibe when it comes to that and the
different elements when it comes to the materials and the switch ups and things like that on the top
end and the small details with the stitching and everything like that but at the end of the day
if i thought about all the air jordan twos that have ever came out at least to the ones that
came out to the public not the samples or pes or anything like that but if i think about all those
i wouldn't put these in the top five and that doesn't mean it's a bad shoe all i'm saying is i
wouldn't gas these up like they're the best thing smoking so now that you guys have seen a bunch of
details on the gray fog pair let's take it over to the rattan or the rattan or the rat tattered i
don't know whatever you want to call these things let's take it to this pair looking at the bottom
of the outsole same thing classic air jordan 2 outsole and then up on the midsole the tan is
kind of matching the same color as the outsole and when you go to the upper everything is going to be
identical when it comes to materials and stitching the only thing that's going to be different
is going to be the colors that we see so we got a tan suede with a tan mesh a orange leather behind
that with the holes and then you have a blue stitch at the bottom you still got the same union
yellow tab but then the eye stays are going to be yellow on here with the plastic exposed eye stays
compared to the blue ones like the other pair and then this matches the leather and everything like
that so these are gonna be very very similar to this pair but now this draws my question for you
guys after seeing the details of these side by side i'm interested to see which pair of
people liked the most so what i did was i posted a poll on my story and asked the people the simple
question is this shoe fire or is this you trash whichever one said fire the most was probably the
one that people liked the most so this is what they said 75 of the people chose fire and 25
of the people chose trash when it comes to the gray pair and when it comes to the tan pair 76 of
the people chose fire and 24 of the people chose trash so realistically they're like damn near the
same people like both technically we could say this had one percent more so people like these
ones more but this draws my next question these two sneakers are valued completely differently
and i want to know how you guys feel about this the gray pair is going for around 375 dollars
and the tan pair is going for close to a thousand dollars when it comes to these two shoes so a lot
of people say yes this one is more available this one's more limited so i understand those
different reasons that charge the demand behind the prices but if people like the shoes the same
does it really matter like shouldn't the prices be like the same or am i tripping like i feel like it
could be that but because of the supply and demand issue we naturally drive the price up even more
because of those reasons and i understand that too trust me i've been in the game a long time
i get those reasons but sometimes things just don't make sense so i'm definitely interested to
see how you guys feel about this because honestly if you like both two the same and you know that
you only want to spend certain amount of dollars you might as well grab the gray pair because those
are a lot cheaper honestly you could buy two pairs of these and take your girl out to dinner and
still not be the same value as these so now when it comes to the release of these two sneakers it
was another nightmare there were a lot of issues with the website we then saw a post about pears
being backdoored to uh what's the one kid out in florida i can't remember his name but there was
a post on instagram everybody was talking about that and like oh he got all the pairs and then
people had orders going through and then they were processing multiple transactions on people's cards
and then they didn't even get the shoes and the money was refunded but it's like they take your
money now and then they give you your money back later and it was just all these different
things going on a lot of situations where people were unhappy about this release so that brings
my next thing for you guys drop a comment down below and let me know how your experience went
when it came to purchasing this shoe or trying to purchase this shoe or if you wanted it at all
or you didn't want it or you just got it to resell it or or you thought it was going to be worth more
you didn't think it was going to be worth that much all those different things i'm excited to
hear what you guys think about this release the sneaker the details the hype behind jordan twos
everything like that and obviously there's gonna be more jordan twos to come this year
i think i'm excited about some of the other ones that are coming out in the future i think the
amount twos i like those way more than these two in particular but again that's just a preference
thing on my end i got my doernbecher twos i got my classics i got everything that i need for my
collection so when it comes to jordan twos i'm definitely a lot more selective and i'm not like
oh i just want to have every single pair because i truly don't so at the end of the day i like these
two shoes i'm not gonna go crazy over them and be willing to spend the high resale market value of
these two shoes i think i hope that the price goes down a little bit more so that people can
access the sneakers a little bit better i'm not sure what they're doing with the release
thing if they still got more pairs and they're going to be sending them back out or whatever's
going on i don't know so stay tuned to what everything's going on there because i honestly
haven't been fully tapped in when it comes to this release in particular i wasn't like
all the way invested into staying up to date with what's coming out and all those different things
on this specific release so for me it's kind of like it is what it is if i get the shoe i
don't if not or whatever kind of thing so i'm glad i got the shoes for you guys to give you
guys review i think that's gonna do it i'll see you guys in another one all right y'all
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