How Do You Date Vintage Nike Shoes By The Numbers?
Nike shoes are very popular high quality and high performance sports shoes. Nike shoes are also very attractively styles. This makes them collectors items with many people purchasing, and collecting vintage Nike shoes. A purchase seeking to purchase vintage Nike shoes needs to be able to spot a real shoe from a fake and to be able to know when a shoe was made by looking at the style numbers. Here are instructions on how to date vintage Nike shoes by the numbers. Look inside the Nike shoe for the woven fabric tag. Nike shoe tags are always woven and not plastic-like or paper. Read the numbers on the tag. Each tag has a series of numbers. You will see the product release number, the sizes, the style numbers and the color numbers. You will also see the bar code and at the very bottom, you will see a date and sku number. Look at the very first set of numbers below “made in china”. This is your release date. The first two numbers indicate the year the shoes were made. For example, if the re