12-02-10, 11:16 AM
I love the Bape x Adidas set. The fakes are getting extremely good now though and it is often not until you have them in your hands that you can tell, mainly on the white embossed and beige suede superstar.
The meal chain attaching the leather swing tag should be a kind of oily black rather than matt black and the tag iself should be leather rather than a hard rubber.
Also on the fakes the wrapping sheet is usually smooth plastic whereas it should be textured / dimpled.
The insole on the fakes is usually consistantly wrong, even where they have the text facing in the opposite directions as per the legit ones the innersoles are usually made of the wrong materials. They are usually canvas and darker than the legit ones. The legit are usually the sand duckhunter camo (apart from the 2 staff pairs and the snakeskin super ape skate). The legit ones are slightly furry and if you look close there are very thin lines running parralel down the insole the whole way across. I haven't seen a fake pair with this yet.
The meal chain attaching the leather swing tag should be a kind of oily black rather than matt black and the tag iself should be leather rather than a hard rubber.
Also on the fakes the wrapping sheet is usually smooth plastic whereas it should be textured / dimpled.
The insole on the fakes is usually consistantly wrong, even where they have the text facing in the opposite directions as per the legit ones the innersoles are usually made of the wrong materials. They are usually canvas and darker than the legit ones. The legit are usually the sand duckhunter camo (apart from the 2 staff pairs and the snakeskin super ape skate). The legit ones are slightly furry and if you look close there are very thin lines running parralel down the insole the whole way across. I haven't seen a fake pair with this yet.