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Air Jordan 1 High Bordauex
Air Jordan 1 High Bordauex
- Cut
- High Top
- Brand
- Air Jordan
- Upper
- Leather
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Designed by Peter Moore and released on 20 November 2021 as part of the Air Jordan 1 line. This release has a leather upper in Bordeaux/White/Metallic Silver. A high cut Air Jordan 1 in a wine leaning colourway is the silhouette at its most formal. The shape comes from Peter Moore with Bruce Kilgore, produced for Michael Jordan on 17 November 1984 after Nike signed him that October, and released publicly on 1 April 1985 with the full collar, the Wings mark stamped at the ankle and the Nike Air tongue label. Deep red tones sit close to the Chicago palette that became an Air Jordan brand colour, but a bordeaux shade pulls it toward tailoring instead of team kit. This row does not carry a style code and spells the colour irregularly, so treat the description as the silhouette plus a dark red family rather than a confirmed single release.
Dark red is a neutral if you treat it like one. Charcoal wool trousers, a black knit and a grey overcoat gives you a winter build where the shoe is the only warm colour. For a looser read, black denim with a cream heavy shirt lets the burgundy sit between the two without shouting. Collar height means your hem should end above the ankle, cuffed or cropped, otherwise the shoe disappears. Size true to length and lace through the top eyelet for hold. Condition the leather each season, dry naturally, and keep it away from strong sunlight since deep reds shift tone faster than blacks or greys.
High cut Air Jordan 1s in dark colours are the pairs that get worn with tailoring, a habit the line legitimised when the Air Jordan 11 put patent leather, a formal wear material, on a basketball court. That single decision is why people now wear Jordans with suits without feeling like they are breaking a rule. The wider cultural weight is older: Nike put Spike Lee on screen as Mars Blackmon in the earliest advertising, and the Banned campaign taught the market that transgression sells. A bordeaux high top inherits all of that and spends none of it loudly.
Assume the standard Air Jordan 1 High material set: leather panels cut as toe, quarter, eyestay and collar, a perforated toe box, a padded ankle collar and a foam midsole over a rubber outsole. Dark red leather is one of the better wearing finishes on this model because it hides road dust while still showing a clean crease line, which is what gives an aged pair its character. Since the row provides no style code, do not assume a specific leather grade, lining or panel finish until you have the shoe: high tops in this colour family have run in smooth leather, in nubuck and in mixed material versions. What is safe is the shape, the collar height and the lace run.
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- High Top
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- Air Jordan
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