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- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Deep Jungle
NIKE DUNK LOW ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT DEEP JUNGLE
NIKE DUNK LOW ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT DEEP JUNGLE
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Deep Jungle
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Designed by Peter Moore and released on 1 October 2023 as part of Nike's Dunk line. This release has a leather upper in Sail/Deep Jungle/Coconut Milk/White. Athletic Department is Nike dressing the Dunk in collegiate language, and Deep Jungle takes that idea into a dark, saturated green rather than a familiar school palette. It is a fitting circle. The Dunk was created in the mid 1980s specifically so that college basketball programmes could take one shoe and paint it in their own colours, which made it the most institutionally flexible model Nike had. Reviving the varsity theme with a green nobody's team actually wears is the joke and the appeal at once. The company itself began on a college track, with University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman and his former runner Phil Knight founding Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964. Campus is where all of this started.
Deep green is a substitute for black that gives you more. Wear it with black or grey denim, a cream heavyweight tee and a navy jacket, so the green stays the only saturated element. For a varsity leaning fit, pair with grey sweatpants and a collegiate style crewneck in ecru, keeping the palette to two colours plus the shoe. This is an everyday walking sneaker, flat and firm rather than cushioned, and it will handle rough weather better than a pale pair because dark leather forgives. Fits true to size. Wipe with a damp cloth, use conditioner on the dark leather to stop it drying out, and clean the pale midsole separately so the contrast stays sharp.
The Dunk earned its cultural weight twice: once on college hardwood, then again through skateboarding and the general fashion wave that followed. Nike's ability to keep the model relevant rests on the credibility built in basketball, from the 1984 Michael Jordan signing to the Spike Lee directed Mars Blackmon advertising, which put Nike at the centre of the sport and, through it, of hip hop and mainstream youth dress. Collegiate themed releases work because they are aimed straight at that origin story. You are wearing a reference to a team, without a team, which is exactly how a lot of American sportswear ended up in everyone's wardrobe.
Deep green leather overlays sit over a lighter base, using the Dunk's separated panel cuts so the Swoosh, toe and heel each hold a hard edge, and collegiate themed pairs usually carry additional branding treatment on the tongue or heel in keeping with the varsity idea. The platform beneath is unchanged: a low profile foam midsole and a pivot circle rubber outsole that keep the shoe flat, wide and close to the ground. There is no Air unit here. Cushioning comes from the collar and tongue padding and the insole. Dark green leather hides scuffing far better than a pale panel, which makes this a practical everyday Dunk. Fits true to size, snug through the midfoot at first.
- Cut
- Low Top
- Upper
- Leather
- Colourway
- Deep Jungle
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