It’s pretty obvious that sneakers with a great story behind it live forever.
The Nike Cortez is one such sneaker with an amazing backstory that has lasted for over 46 years.
Before coming into existence as the Nike Coretz, there was a previous chapter to the story of this sneaker.
The American track and field coach Bill Bowerman, who later became a co-founder of Nike , worked on a running shoe named TG-24 together with the Japanese footwear company Onitsuka Tiger (Asics). In August of 1966, Bowerman ordered 300 pairs of the “TG-24 shoe designed by Bill Bowerman w/Mexico Line” (this was the name of the shoe lol) to be distributed in the US. The shoe contained everything that a runner at that time was looking for and it went on to become one of the best selling runners if that year.