Things You Should Know Look for bright, vibrant colors and high-quality leather and suede on legit Nikes. See if there is neat, even stitching around the soles and mesh panels. Check the logos on the tongue and heel to see if they're embossed with raised edges. Real Jordan logos have full, solid colors.

Only the original white/black colorway returned, but it did release in high and low-top form. 2004 would mark the first retro run for the Air Jordan 2, spanning three high-top and two low-tops, with two more lows, one for men and the other for women, in 2005.

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What's a retro? Retros are recreations of an earlier model (the original is fittingly called an OG), re-released years later using different shoe-making technology with minor changes in material. That explains why there are so many Air Jordan 1s from different years, even though the OG was released in 1985.