Jordan 8 Retro Aqua

The Jordan 8 Retro Aqua is the black, purple and aqua colourway with the crossover straps across the forefoot, one of the busiest and most distinctive designs Jordan Brand has made. Buy it if you want a Jordan that looks like nothing else in the line.

The 8 is the heaviest Jordan of the early era. Two crossing velcro straps replace a conventional lace cage, the tongue carries a chenille Jumpman patch rather than a printed one, and the upper layers nubuck over a substantial midsole. It was built as a support shoe and it wears like one.

Aqua is the colourway that made the model. Black with purple and teal accents reads loud, so this is a shoe you style around with plain clothing.

The 8 has never had the mainstream pull of a 1 or a 4, which keeps pricing sane on a genuinely rare silhouette. If you want a Jordan nobody else at the party is wearing, this is the model.

Sizes 8.5 and 10.5, one pair each. Deadstock, authenticated in hand at our Dallas location. Jordan 8s fit true to size.