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Nike COURT VISION MID NN Black Men Sneakers
Nike COURT VISION MID NN Black Men Sneakers
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Origin
Court Vision Mid in Next Nature form and full black is the most practical shoe in this whole list: a mid cut court shape, built with recycled content, in the colour that never needs explaining. Nike's oldest instinct is supply rather than spectacle. Blue Ribbon Sports opened its first store in Santa Monica in 1966 and expanded east to Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1967 selling honest product to people who needed it, and the company still runs an enormous business at that end of the range. The Next Nature designation ties to Nike Grind, the programme that recycles manufacturing scrap and worn shoes back into new product and surfaces, which is where the material actually comes from.
Utility
Wear one: work and errands, black jeans with a grey crewneck and a dark jacket, where a full black shoe passes almost any dress code that allows sneakers. Wear two: layered winter, black trousers with a heavy overshirt, using the mid collar to fill the gap above the hem. Good for standing all day, travel and commuting, not for training. Fit is true to size with a moderate width, and the mid collar needs a few wears to soften. Care: brush dry, use a mild cleaner and a cloth rather than hard scrubbing on the recycled upper, keep the midsole white with a foam cleaner, and dry at room temperature.
Influence
The plain black Nike is the endpoint of everything the brand built: from the 1980s its shoes were status symbols in urban and hip hop fashion, then mainstream American youth dress, then permanent parts of the casual and athleisure wardrobes of the 1990s and 2000s. Once that saturation is complete, the brand can sell a shoe whose entire proposition is that it works. Nike's scale here is also its exposure, since price positioning has hurt it in some markets: in India, where it entered in 1995 through a licensing deal with Sierra Industrial Enterprises, its product sat roughly 30 percent above competitors and around 200 stores closed from 2017.
Construction
A mid cut court shoe gives you a higher collar than a low, which adds a little ankle coverage and changes the proportion under a trouser hem, on a flat rubber outsole with a wide, stable footprint. The upper here uses materials containing recycled content, so expect a slightly different hand from full grain leather, lighter and more textile in character. Nike Grind is the signature that matters, recycling scrap and worn product back into new goods, which is a genuinely old programme rather than a recent addition. Full black is the most forgiving finish for a shoe built this way, since recycled uppers can show surface variation that a dark colour absorbs entirely.




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