Nike SB Dunk Low Hawaii

Style code 313170-003 places this in the older stretch of Nike SB, when the line was building its reputation release by release and a shoe could be themed around a place rather than a technology. The Hawaii is exactly that: an SB Dunk Low built around a location and its visual shorthand, tropical print and island colour, at a point when Nike SB was still proving it understood the culture it had walked into. Nike itself had been in the business since 1964, first as Blue Ribbon Sports importing Japanese running shoes, and by the time it launched SB it had the Swoosh, Just Do It and half of American sneaker culture behind it. None of that guaranteed a warm welcome from skaters.