Sorry the sneakerheads, even sneakers never worn down
On Tiktok, collectors of sneakers find that some of their pairs however carefully kept in their original box without ever being worn after several years.A sign they better put them on?
How to keep sneakers well when you are a fan?Keeping them preciously in a box without ever touching them is perhaps not the universal solution!
Even kept intact in a box, sneakers can degrade over the years
For several years, the sneaker market has exploded, attracting collectors of all stripes who buy pairs to store them while they have value in order to resell them by making a capital gain, as explained by this mini mini-Reporting presented by Léna situations for Parisian vogue:
But on Tiktok, sneakerheads (that's how we call basketball geeks who know everything about everything) show that old models do not survive time to test.
Indeed, sneakers often have innovations on the technical materials on the material, rather developed for their aesthetic aspect and their performance than for their longevity.
On this last point, we do not necessarily have a lot of decline yet elsewhere.This is what partly explains these tiktok on which we see the outsole of sneakers, however carefully kept in their box and never worn, decompose like crumble with a simple passage the finger.
This phenomenon is therefore not necessarily linked to the seniority of a pair of sneakers, but depends well on the subjects that compose it and their way of deteriorating, as HighsnobiaTy has just identified, the media specializing in all phenomenahype.
As much as we have hindsight on leather and rubber that ages pretty well, as much we do not know what the multiplication of innovative technical materials will be liked on sneakers in a few years ... This is something to interest the biggest collectors of sneakersto the challenges of biodegradability and environment!
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