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I agree...I knew when I wrote that 'first shoe' thing someone would pull me up ;)
Jordan's were/are pretty much the perfect skate shoe. That's why dunks have been so massive in the SB line. If we're really splitting hairs, all stars were the first non-skate shoe. Converse weapons were also decent for the same reasons as the Jordan's. The problem with the Jordan's is that no one (other than a small number of highly paid teenagers in the late 80's who were an advertisers wet dream) could afford to trash them skating, so not exactly a mainstream thing. Workouts you could get for £15...much like the first states/Clydes/baskets/gazelles/etc wave - good times! So they were accessible and I think they were the first shoe to influence a skate shoe design so heavily. Want that book!