so my packages just came in the mail and i got two pairs from sneakers app and
i'm a happy camper i'm excited to open these things
up talk about the styles cuts and materials
a little bit about the history and then obviously see what you guys think give
you guys my opinions check out the polls all those different
things but with all that being said let's go ahead and crack this box open
and get into it
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and here we have it the air jordan 3 fragment
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first we need to talk a little bit of history about fragment for those that
don't know fragment is also known as a streetwear
brand originally created by hiroshi fujiwara and we have seen a bunch of
dope iconic pieces created by him even a dope collab with something like pokemon
you gotta check my dude out he's decked out on fragment pikachu decked out and
fragment and you know what i'm saying that's fire
and with my background with studying japanese from kindergarten all the way
through high school taking trips to japan
and learning so much about the culture and diving deep into it throughout my
entire life as a youngster i think something like this really hits
home for me because i always like to see dope collaborations coming from japan
especially with different artists and the culture all around it i love going
out to japan and i definitely would love to have a
sneaker like this in my collection so that's why i'm so excited to have these
so enough talk with the backstory let's go ahead and get into these shoes this
is a different box actually typically the air jordan 3 box has the
lift off top box this one actually flaps open like this
you got your navy blue on one half and then we got a big big air jordan jumpman
logo right here no fragment branding on the top and then
on the face of the box you have a fragment branding logo right here and
then you have the size tag reading air jordan 3
retro sp white white black retail 200 bucks
opening up the box you got adult paper right here with the jumpman logo and the
fragment logo all over print and then you got the shoe
oh you got the shoe so before we get started one shoe that i will be
comparing in hand will be the red cement 3 for the cuts of the materials and the
style of the shoe and then the other two i will be using
for color blocking will be the tinker air jordan 3
and then obviously the fragment air jordan 1 will be referenced as well so
let's go ahead and get into the video first
impression of this shoe it's simple it's basic
it's clean i'm not mad at it i personally don't like white shoes as
much as i like darker shoes so that is one knock from it but i do
like the cut of it and the materials look solid so i'm
excited to see what you guys think about this as i go over this review starting
with the outsole you have all white outsole with a black here at the arch of
the foot and a black at the ball of the foot working our way up to the midsole
you have an all-white midsole a white air unit and white stitching
here around the toe and then one thing that sticks out right here on the heel
of the foot as well is it has a fall 2020 branding fragment design the
numbers and everything on here this kind of gives you that design
element kind of like a sample of it and they want to create that element of
the industry mix with the culture of the shoe as well
and show you how the backhand is with it typically when they sample a shoe they
may scribble something here on the midsole
with a sharpie or something like that but they did a full print right here
to kind of give you guys that same vibe as you were to get a sample shoe
me personally i think it maybe could have been bigger or maybe less
stuff on the side i don't know it's kind of all dependent on what you guys think
about it i don't think it really obstructs
anything from the midsole just because you can't really see it from far away so
i don't think it's too big of a problem let me know what you guys think about
that hit on the midsole working our way up to the toe and the mud guard
as you can see right here you have a fully smooth leather on the mud guard
and the same exact leather here on the toe no elephant print like you typically
would get on the air jordan 3 on the front and the back of the foot one thing
that i do love is that they were able to keep the toe very slim and give it that
og look in that og vibe similar to the red cement 3 as you can
see right here the toes are very similar and i really love that hit on the shoe
because that gives you that classic og look
not too bulky like the previous retros that we have seen over the past five
years now working our way to the mid panel and the back end of the foot
as you can see here on the mud guard it has a white stitch line right here
maybe would have preferred if that would have been black and then they continued
it white up top i don't know if they had to stitch this
whole thing in one piece so they had to just sacrifice putting
a white stitch line right here i would have personally preferred if it was
black so it looks more seamless more smooth
but again that's maybe just a factory thing or maybe that been a design effect
that they liked i would have just preferred something
more simple now moving to the back of the foot where you typically see your
elephant print right here i feel like this panel is a little bit
shorter than it typically is compared to a regular retro three for
some reason i don't know if it's the coloring of the shoe
but it just feels like it's a little bit more squished down and then you have
your fragment logo also right here on the heel of the foot
a very dope iconic touch something similar to the air jordan 1 fragment on
the back of the foot right there very very simple very clean but can
literally change the value of a shoe by adding that to the foot now looking
at the white leather on the upper of the shoe i'm feeling it i'm touching it i'm
not mad at it at all it feels really good it feels really nice
and the one thing about this shoe as well it feels like it's just a little
bit heavier than normal like i feel like the leather and the quality of the
materials are just a little bit nicer a little bit thicker cut or something
and it's causing the shoe to just weigh a little bit more but i'm not mad at
this at all i feel like for 200 you're definitely getting your
bang for the buck not even talking about resale value but just straight up like
durability and quality of the shoe i feel like they did their thing with
these looking at the sock liner in the back of the tongue the materials are a
lot nicer than your typical materials that you get on air jordan 3
more kind of like that neoprene style that you get a little bit smoother a
little bit silkier and then on the back of the tongue you
have fragments stitched upside down with the black patch
and then going to the back of the shoe i think this is one of the most
controversial most iconic most dope whatever you want to
call it pieces of the shoe so let's go ahead and talk about it now
you remember on the japan code denim 3 they had the same thing with that but i
feel like we saw these first i don't remember but i feel like we did
and honestly on the last one i was digging it and on these i'm digging it
too i think it's a dope hit a dope touch obviously what you're gonna have to
worry about most is what over time this is probably going to yellow
it is kind of interesting because when you flip the tab back right here
they actually painted it white on this back end of the tab but it's not clear
all the way through it looks like it has a chance of rubbing
off over time i'm not sure though and then obviously you have your fragment
logo with the clear jumpman right here the air and the black letters right
there so overall what do you guys think about
the shoe drop a comment down below i'm excited to hear what you guys have to
say it's definitely something different
pretty simple at the same time like i said with the tinker 3
we had that same vibe with the red and the white and it didn't really go for as
much and it had the nike swoosh on the side
this has a different element to it as well and for some reason this is worth a
lot more than the other one was so that brings into my next question the price
of this shoe how do you guys feel about it right now
for me size 13 they're gonna go for 400 420 bucks 450 bucks and it's crazy
because before the release they were going for like 1200 prices
slowly been going down and i understand that that happens with time
and what also happens with time they start to go back up as people wear them
this is a white shoe somebody's going to mess it up they're going to want to get
these a year from now and somebody's going to still have them on ice
and next thing you know thousand dollars twelve hundred dollars fifteen hundred
dollars two thousand dollars i think this shoe could easily be worth
fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars if you give it some time i don't think
you know a month or two months from now but i think maybe a year or two years
from now it could hit those prices just because of the demand and then the
collaboration and the hype behind the collaboration and if you have the jordan
one then you're probably gonna want the jordan 3 and then there might be another
collaboration that may come out and there's a lot of different factors that
roll into it or like we always know if travis scott
wears them next thing you know that's the overnight price hike that's
the only time that we see that happen if travis scott wears this shoe they're
gonna go from 400 to 800 like that and it's going to be crazy
you're going to be like bro why did you shoot that so much go to instagram
scrolling right there oh there he go travis scott wearing the air jordan 3
again all damn next thing you know so it's
that type of situation but at the end of the day i feel like
it's a great price right now i don't see them going much cheaper
we've seen this happen with the travis scott 4. remember that the price started
shooting down here like oh bro that means cheap no i want them now you look
at it 1200 thousand dollars and you're like bro
what was i thinking if you haven't already
follow me on ig so you can participate in the polls and i always post those on
my stories before i drop the videos take the results and then i'll put them
here inside the video so that way you guys can see
what you guys voted so fire trash what is it 80
set fire 20 said trash i get it we got both sides and i understand where each
side is coming from but i'm falling on the fire side i'm so
so happy to pick up two let me just one more time
i just got to do it i'm sorry i just i gotta do it
just so that don't say it's photoshopped
i'm so excited to pick up two pairs for retail
that's my take on it let me know what you guys think drop a comment down below
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