Memories - adidas Dragon

My experience with the early Nike Marathon was less than outstanding. Then, I got myself a pair of adidas Dragon sneakers to wear around campus. They were blue with white stripes, nylon with suede side reinforcements... a little extra construction detail that Nike was willing to forsake in their early days until people complained their shoes fell apart too fast.

I liked them so much that I bought two pairs when they were originally in production; the first had an outsole without center nubs in the circles, while the outsole on the second version was (as I remember) exactly like the adidas SL72 sole. Not only that, I bought the reissues!

Some of the Dragon colorways:

• Vintage:
  • Tan and brown (a friend had a pair)
  • Gold and blue (mentioned by a Web site reader)
  • Green and blue (seen in a store)
  • Blue and lemon (mentioned by a Web site reader)
  • Blue and white (what I had)
• Reissues:
  • Black and white
  • Pink and black
  • Pink and white
  • Red and blue
  • Red and white
  • Yellow and white
  • Gold and white (Velcro straps)
  • Green and white
  • Mint and white
  • Dark blue and white
  • White and pink
  • White and red
  • White and yellow
  • White and blue

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Last Updated: 22 February 2017

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