With Air Max month in full swing, Nike is celebrating the pair that started the decades-long visible Air trend. Coming back to us all the way from 1986, the “Royal Blue” colorway of Tinker Hatfield’s iconic creation gets its most accurate retro to date. To non-Air Max heads, that means it has a “big bubble.” The original pairs that hit the market in the 80s featured a noticeably larger Air unit, but quality control issues forced Nike to update it with a smaller bubble. The updated bubble is just as iconic to most, but nothing gets sneakerheads excited like true “OG” details. You can get a pair for the whole family now at Nike.
